Details
of the Nigerian lawyer who is defending alleged billionaire kidnapper,
Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike aka Evans has been revealed.
Voice Olukoya Ogungbeje
Just when Nigerians thought no lawyer will step out to defend
notorious billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike a.k.a. Evans,
Voice Olukoya Ogungbeje has proven an exception.
Ogungbeje who heads Lawflex Chambers and is the Chairman of Voice Vanguard, stepped out Wednesday.
He grabbed the headlines as he filed a fundamental rights suit on
behalf of Evans, by dragging the Inspector General of Police, and three
others before a Federal High Court in Lagos over Evans alleged illegal
detention .
Joined as respondents are the Nigeria Police Force, Commissioner of
Police Lagos State, and the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Lagos State
Police Command.
In his fundamental rights the confessed kidnapper is seeking a
court order directing the respondents to immediately charge him to court
if there is any case against him.
He is in the alternative, seeking an order, compelling the
respondents to immediately release him unconditionally in the absence of
any offence warranting a charged.
In the suit marked, FHC/L/CS/1012/2017, Evans is contending that
his continued detention by the respondents since June 10, without a
charge, or release on bail is an infringement on his fundamental rights.
He argued that the respondents ought to have charged him to court
in accordance with the provisions of Sections 35 and 36 of the
Constitution.
It was further argued that the alleged offence committed by the
applicant (Evans) are correspondingly intertwined with the
constitutional safeguards as provided under Sections 35 and 36 of the
Constitution.
In a 27-paragraph affidavit in support of the motion deposed to by
Evan’s father, Stephen Onwuamadike, it was averred that the applicant
has been subjected to media trial without any court’s order by the
respondents.
Onwuamadike further averred that the media trial and news
orchestrated by the respondents have continued to generate reactions in
both print and electronic media without his son being afforded fair
hearing before a court of law.
The deponent also averred that since his son’s arrest, all his
family members have been denied access to him while media practitioners
have been granted unfettered access to him.
The new suit has not been assigned to any judge and no date has been fixed for the hearing.
Evans lawyer, who identified himself on Facebook as Voice Olukoya
Ogungbeje had been involved in controversial cases in recent times.
In April, he filed a suit asking the Federal High Court to stay
proceedings on the forfeiture of $43,449,947 (about N13billion),
N23,218,000 and £27,800 (about N10.6 million) found in a flat in Ikoyi,
Lagos.
He also sought an order directing the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) to furnish the court with a report of its preliminary
or final investigation on the source of the money, its owner, and how
the currencies got into the building.
Ogungbeje, in a motion on notice asked the court not to order a
permanent forfeiture of the money since there are claims and counter
claims as to its ownership by the Rivers State government and the
National Intelligence Agency (NIA)and since the Federal Government had
set up the Osinbajo panel to find the truth about the ownership of the
money.
“This honourable court has the inherent jurisdiction under Section 6
(6)(b) of the Constitution to order and direct thorough investigation
on the sources of the monies, their owners, the owners of the Osborne
Towers where the monies were found and how they got into the building.
The case did not get anywhere as the money was later permanently forfeited to the Federal Government.
Ogungbeje also once filed a suit in Lagos in 2014 asking for the
reinstatement of Murtala Nyako as governor of Adamawa state. This was
after Nyako was impeached by the state assembly in July of the same year
and the speaker of the state assembly had taken over.
Again, the case hit the rocks.
Ogungbeje claimed the Assembly’s alleged failure to serve Nyako
personally with the impeachment notice violated his fundamental right to
fair hearing as enshrined under Section 36 of the 1999 Constitution.
After the court heard arguments from parties and judgment date
fixed, Fintiri, through his lawyer, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN) urged
the judge not to deliver the verdict.
The former Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) president prayed the
court to set aside all the proceedings conducted in the suit so far
because his clients were not served with the suit in accordance with the
law.
According to him, the court should strike out the entire action since the due process of law was not followed.
Olanipekun, who is also representing Mammadi and the House of
Assembly, argued that the originating processes were not properly served
on his clients.
-NAN
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