Court to hear case of man jailed for 9-yrs without charge

An application seeking for the release of a 34-year-old man, Segun Odumeru, who has been jailed for the past nine-years without trial has been adjourned by a Lagos High Court.

The case of Odumeru who has been in Kirikiri Prisons since 2009, without any charge filed against him was adjourned till September 4 by Justice Idowu Alakija.

The new date was decided by Justice Alakija after listening to the fundamental rights application brought by the applicant’s counsel, Mr. Tunji Abdulhameed.

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He had filed an application in a way of motion on notice against the Lagos State Police and their privies as respondents.

Earlier, Abdulhameed told the court that the applicant was arrested by the Police in April 2009 and taken to a magistrate’s court on a holding charge of robbery.

He said the Police took Odumeru to the magistrate’s court and urged the court to remand Odumeru until a proper charge was drafted against him.

 

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