Lagos state government is seeking to make human rights lawyer Femi Falana a witness in the trial of the suspected kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike aka Evans.
The state government filed an application seeking to present Falana (SAN), as a witness in the trial ongoing at a Federal High Court, Igbosere.
According to The Nation Newspaper, the prosecution counsel, Y. G Oshoala told Justice Adedayo Akintoye that Evans made a claim concerning Falana while testifying in a trial within trial which required clarification by the lawyer-activist.
According to him, Evans claimed that after his arrest in 2017, the police obtained a confessional statement from him under duress. He said Evans alleged that Falana visited the police station where he was being tortured, but a Chief Superintendent (CSP) hid him in a toilet until the lawyer left. The prosecutor noted that he needed to call the SAN as a witness “in the interest of justice.”
Oshoala’s application followed the resumption of proceedings in the fourth and fifth in a series of kidnap, murder and attempted murder charges brought against Evans by the Lagos state government.
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