Melaye and two others are on
trial for alleged gun-running.
His lawyer told the trial
magistrate, Suleyman Abdalah that Senator Melaye was attacked in Gwagwalada on
Thursday morning, on his way to Lokoja.
He said, ‘’I learnt that he was
attacked this morning in Gwagwalada on his way to Lokoja, Up till now, I have
not been able to reach him. I don’t know where he is at the moment.’
Mohammed stated that the
prosecuting counsel was not ready to open the case “due to the reason best
known to them.”
The officer in charge of Police
prosecution, Theophilus Oteme, told the court that the prosecuting counsel had
an emergency, which made it “extremely difficult to appear in court.”
Oteme, however, asked for a long
adjournment till September 23, which was opposed by the trial magistrate who
argued that “it contravened administration of criminal justice law of Kogi
State as amended.”
He adjournment till 9th August
for commencement of trial.
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