Evans’ Lawyer Loses Court Case, To Pay N500,000 Fine

The lawyer standing for kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, aka Evans, has lost yet another case in court.

Evans’ counsel, Olukoya Ogungbeje, was defeated on Friday, when Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court in Lagos dismissed two fundamental rights applications filed by him, according to an online medium, NewsMakers.

Ogungbeje had reportedly filed the case on behalf of his clients, Messrs Chief Kenneth Chukwuemeka Ajoku and Chidinma Ozurumba, against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, but it was dismissed for lack of merit and for being frivolous.

The judge also awarded a total cost of N500,000 against the two petitioners.

Other respondents in Ajoku’s suit are a Lagos-based lawyer, Mr. Taiwo Kupolati, Folorunsho Sholanke, Jide Olaleye, Abraham Ogunleye, Kolade Akinwunmi and Dr. Ishaku Danladi Msheliza.

The two petitioners, in suits marked FHC/L/CS/736/2017 and FHC/L/CS 803/2017, had urged the court to declare that the arrest and detention by the operatives and agents of EFCC on May 4, at the instigation of other respondents for taking up the brief of his client and without cause, was “illegal, wrongful, unlawful, and unconstitutional as it violates the applicant’s fundamental rights as guaranteed under sections 33, 34, 35 and 36 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

Responding to the suits, the EFCC, in two separate counter-affidavits deposed to by Ayodele Samuel and Makinde Adebayo, and argued before the court by Banjo James, urged the judge to refuse the applicants’ applications for being frivolous and lacking in merit.

Delivering judgment on the two applications on Friday, Justice Buba, while dismissing the two applications for lacking in merit and being frivolous, awarded a total cost of N500,000 against the two applicants in favour of the EFCC and other respondents.

Two weeks ago, Ogungbeje filed such fundamental rights suit against police authorities in a bid to set Evans free, claiming that the police illegally detained the suspect who had made a series of televised confessions on how he had kidnapped his victims and kept them for as long as seven months until their families coughed out as much as $1m.

A victim’s son had revealed that his 86-year-old father was killed by Evans and his gang after he had paid a huge ransom.

Mexican Mayor Ties The Knot With A Beautiful Female Crocodile In A Lavish Wedding Ceremony

Victor Aguilar, the Mayor of San Pedro Huamelula, took a crocodile to be his wife in the southern region of Oaxaca on Friday, as part of an indigenous tradition intended to bring good fortune to local fishermen. .

The female crocodile was baptised on Thursday, and was subsequently dressed in a white robe and had her jaws clamped shut on the big day. .

Tradition demands the Mayor of San Pedro Huamelula marry a new crocodile each year, as legend has it that the ceremony will bring fishermen luck in fishing. .

Aguilar said: ‘With this ritual we ask for a good harvest, for the sea and the lagoons to give us all the food we need and we ask that everything goes well with everyone here.’

“Our Brothers Arrested With Nnamdi Kanu, Have Been Abandoned And Forgotten” – Facebook user

Facebook user Tochukwu Ifeduba has just called out nnamdi kanu for abandoning his biafran colleagues who were arrested alongside with him;

Our Brothers arrested with Nnamdi Kanu abandoned and forgotten . They were brought to court Yesterday not even a single IPOB Nnamdi member was in court to show solidarity as usual . Real Freedom Fighters do not abandon his men at the battle field the captain should be the last to leave the ship .

Evans Lawyer, Ogungbeje Justifies His Reasons For Defending The Billionaire Kidnapper

Lagos lawyer, Olukoya Ogungbeje, has justified his decision to defend suspected billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, a.k.a. Evans, in court.

Ogungbeje has come under public criticisms for accepting the brief to seek freedom forEvans from police detention, or have him charged to court, weeks after his arrest. Nigerians had taken to the media to condemn the move, saying, the notorious criminal suspect who confessed to denying his victims their freedom did not deserve mercy considering the atrocities he reportedly committed with his gang members.

But, speaking with Saturday Sun yesterday, Ogungbeje, accused a section of the media, as well as many Nigerians of being ignorant of the law.

Citing a judgment delivered by Lord Denning, regarded as the most famous and influential judicial figure of the last century, he noted that it was settled in law that “no matter the bases of the complaints of the cause of your crime, no matter how unpopular is the cause of your crime, no matter how bad is the cause of your crime, the legal practitioner has a duty to take up the cause, if he’s properly briefed and provided that person represents his client within the bounds of law.”

He added:

 

“That is my answer to your question. So, no matter the public opinion, I have the responsibility to take up the matter. We were properly briefed. So, our action is based on law. And we want to represent our client within the bounds of law, within the confines of law. So, if you for instance, you’re a journalist, if you brief me… you don’t want me to take up your cause, because people are saying negative things about you, or because people have condemned you and found you guilty before the media, that I should not take up your case?

“Look, let me tell you right away. We were briefed two weeks ago. And I told them to give me two weeks to think, whether I would take up the brief or not. I did my consultations. We consulted even journalists, you can go and make enquiries. I consulted my people. I consulted senior lawyers. So, have I done what is wrong by taking the cause of my clients? Forget what people say in the court of public of opinion.

 

Teenager Sells Father’s N7.5Million SUVs for N350k To Buy Drugs In Abia

During a workshop on substance abuse and illicit drug trafficking for senior secondary school students, organized by the National Committee on Narcotics and Substance Abuse in Abia yesterday, the Commander of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Abia state, Akingbade Bamidele, revealed that his command recently counseled a teenager who sold his father’s N7.5 million SUV for N350, 000 in Umuahia, Abia, in order to buy hard drugs.

According to him, the boy who sold his father’s two SUVs got to the dependent stage where there’s absolutely nothing he cannot sell, just to buy drugs. Here’s what he said;

“There’s a boy at Umuahia that his father brought to us for counseling. He sold two vehicles – a Lexus and a Forerunner worth N7.5m for N350,000. Do you know why? The reason is because he was involved in drug abuse and has gotten to dependent stage where there’s absolutely nothing he cannot sell, just to buy drugs. It was a situation of keep this vehicles for me and just be giving me drugs. You notice when things began to miss at home, that something is wrong.”

He further said;

“The cult boys that cut the heads of other students at Uturu and used them for goal post, when they were arrested, we went and tested them and it was clear that they were high on drugs and that gave them such mind to severe another persons’ head for goal post. You have to be very careful. The young man you saw on the screen was sent to deliver a parcel of which he doesn’t know much about and today, he’s in trouble. Ignorance is not an excuse in law. The rich will use the children of the poor to do their illicit drug trafficking”.

“I Have Spoilt Imo People With Development” – Gov Okorocha

Governor Rochas Okorocha has scored his performance as the helms-man of the state, high. He also said that the Imo people will stone his successor if he or she does not perform well. .

The Governor told newsmen that he did not get into politics for profit, but to serve and leave a legacy. According to Vanguard, he said this while speaking to State House Correspondents in Abuja. .

Okorocha said “I am in this job not for the profit of it but for the honour and glory of the job. So I want to leave a legacy. I want Imo people to miss me and they will definitely miss me.

Believe you me they have not seen such developmental work before now and they will miss it. The only problem I have is that anybody that comes after me and does not perform will be stoned. .

Because you cannot come to Imo State now and say you want to abolish free education from primary to university, they will not accept. I have spoilt Imo people believe me.

You cannot come to Imo State and say you want to give them a single lane road when they are now used to eight lane road in the city, they won’t accept it. .

You cannot come here and tell the children to go to schools where the floors are not tiled they will not accept because all the schools have been rebuilt. I have rebuilt 450 schools.

You can no longer take them to those ramshackle hospitals, those shanties they called hospitals because I have built 27 to 200 bed general hospitals. .

You cannot tell them that there are criminal activities any more and that your hands are tied, they will not accept it because we know where we brought Imo from, from unsafe place to a safe place right now. .

I stand to be challenged and corrected by anybody that what we have done in Imo State in six years can be comparable to what any governor in that state living or dead has done. Have you seen me sounding boisterous? That is the truth. .

But the point is I don’t make media noise, I don’t make foundation laying stones Programme, I don’t bring women to dance because I want to lay foundation project. I don’t commission projects because for me it doesn’t make sense.”

Photos: Lionel Messi Weds His Childhood Sweetheart, Antonella Roccuzzo

Lionel Messi weds his Childhood Sweetheart, Antonella Roccuzzo,

Barcelona foward, Lionel Messi has finally tied the knot with his childhood sweetheart, Antonella Roccuzzo on Friday Night.

The wedding was attended by some of the biggest names in football and the Argentine Society.

According to reports, about 250 guests were in attendance, which held at the City Centre Luxury Hotel and casino, where they were serenaded by famous Argentine singer, Abel Pintos.

Messi’s Barcelona team-mates, including Neymar, Luis Suarez and Gerard Pique who was joined by his wife, Colombian pop star Shakira, were on hand to add colour to the event while some of his ex-teammates like Samuel Eto’o, Carles Puyol, Xavi and Chelsea’s Cesc Fabregas were also in attendance.

Messi and wife are already blessed with two kids – Tiago and Matteo – from a union that dates back to their teenage days.

See some pics below;