The defendants were accused of burning down the Rivers State House of Assembly last year.
EXCLUSIVE: Top Nigeria Customs officers enmeshed in multi-billion naira corruption scandalFood security: The Bago challenge, By Dakuku PetersideEXCLUSIVE: Top Nigeria Customs officers enmeshed in multi-billion naira corruption scandalFood security: The Bago challenge, By Dakuku PetersideThe trial of five suspects arrested in connection with the burning of the Rivers House of Assembly last year could not proceed on Tuesday at the Federal High Court, Abuja.
Mr Fagbemi told the court that he had filed a motion on notice to challenge the competence of the charge and the territorial jurisdiction of the court to hear the matter. Ms Olajuwon equally discovered that a copy of the prosecution’s counter-affidavit was not in the court’s file.The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the five defendants, who are loyalists of Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State, were on 25 January arraigned on seven counts of terrorism and murder.
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