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Court Remand IPOB Members in Correctional center


 A magistrate court sitting in Port Harcourt has remanded the twenty-one suspected IPOB members to the Correctional Centre shortly after they were arraigned by the Rivers State Police Command.

Chief Magistrate A. O.Amadi-Nna who declined to grant them bail also ordered the prosecution team to drop the case file with the registrar of the court for onward transmission to the Director of Public Prosecution unit of the Rivers State Ministry of Justice.


Chief Magistrate Amadi-Nna who accepted that his  court lacks the jurisdiction to entertain the matter because of the nature of the charges also advised the lawyers to the twenty-one defendants to approach the high court and seek bail for their clients.


He however adjourned the case to the 29th of December pending the outcome of the legal advice from the Department of Public Prosecution ,DPP;.


Our correspondent reports that the suspects were slammed with three different charges of terrorism, cultism, and illegal and unlawful gathering by the prosecutions team.


In the meantime, lawyer to one of the defendant  Mbadinuju Akunasiobike ,  told  our correspondent that though the court lacks jurisdiction to entertain the case it should have crosscheck properly the case file if the prosecution team is misinforming the court on the charges preferred against his client. 

 Also, counsel to the 6th defendant  Sunday Womoor claimed his client was framed up by the police.

Mr. Womoor said his client was arrested for a different offense and not in Oyigbo but was charged a terrorist and member of the proscribed .


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