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FG to arraign factional leaders of IPMAN

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9 years ago

October 1, 2015

The factional President of the Independent Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Lawson Obasi is to be arraigned on November 6 at the Federal High Court, Jabi of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

Speaking with journalists at Abuja, counsel to the Elder Chinedu Okoronkwo-led IPMAN, Barrister Nnamna Oru, said the new date for arraignment was due to the absence of the presiding judge who is engaged at the election tribunal in Gombe State, hence the suspect would have been arraigned on 6th of July.

Others charged alongside Obasi are Ukadike Chinedu, Augustine Erhabor and Andrew Ashiga.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Mohammed Diri, who was present in court on September 6, had filed the six-count charge before the FCT High Court.

Count one of the 6-count charge filed by Diri on behalf of the Federal Government among others reads, “That you, Chief Lawson Obasi, Ukadike Chinedu (aka Asha), Augustine Erhabor and Andrew Ashiga (now at large) on or about the 14th day of April 2014, within the judicial division of the High Court of FCT, conspired to commit an offence, in that, while you armed yourselves with dangerous weapons such as cutlasses, wood, iron rod and knives, you violently forced yourselves into the premises of Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) headquarters located at No. 41, Gnassigbe Eyadema Street, Asokoro, Abuja and attacked the headquarters by breaking the doors, windows, lockers and cardboards of the office and inflicting various degrees of injuries on the occupants and robbed them of large sums of money and valuable properties valued at millions of naira”.

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