A Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State has again remanded Azeez Lawal, the Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Lagos Island Branch B, for alleged murder.
The 48-year-old Lawal known as Kunle Poly is charged with conspiracy to commit murder, murder, and membership of an unlawful society.
He is standing trial along with one Adekanbi Wahab, aged 38.
On Monday, the Chief Magistrate, Mrs Linda Balogun, adjourned the case pending advice from the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecution.
She directed a lawyer from the directorate, Mrs. O. R. Saliu, to ensure the advice would be ready on the next adjourned date.
Saliu had told the court that the advice was not ready.
Counsel to the defendants, Adeshina Okulana, argued that the defendants had been in custody for more than 60 days.
He said that it violated their rights.
He said that the DPP did not give any reason for the delay and a time-frame within which the advice would be ready.
The lawyer said that the DPP did not give any reason for the delay and a timeframe within which the advice would be read.
The defendants were, on January 27, remanded for an initial period of 30 days.
They were on February 28 further remanded for another 30 days.
Balogun had initially remanded the defendants at the Police Zonal Monitoring Unit, Zone 2 Headquarters, Onikan, Lagos, pending further investigations.
She remanded them at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre on the last adjourned date.
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