By Jeffery Ahonmisi
Justice Bayo Taiwo of Oyo State High Court, Ring – Road, Ibadan has adjourned till January 22, 2025, for the continuation of the hearing in the ongoing trial between the state and former Chairman of the Park Management System, PMS in the state, Alhaji Mukaila Lamidi also known as Auxiliary.
Justice Taiwo adjourned the matter because the defence Counsel to the defendant, Mr Olalekan Ojo, SAN, objected to a police officer being called to give evidence.
The Director of Public Prosecution, Mr S. O . Adeoye, who appeared for the state, had called Inspector Innocent Agede from the Oyo State Police Command Monitoring Unit, Eleyele, Ibadan, to give evidence.
Mr Ojo said the state’s counsel did not serve him with the summary of the evidence.
He said the witness called did not have a statement or a summary of his evidence, as mandatorily required by section 380 subsection four of the Administration of Criminal Justice of Nigeria 2016.
Alhaji Lamidi is facing trial on seventeen counts of charges of armed robbery, murder, attempted murder, and possession of firearms, including one AK-47 assault rifle.
The case is based on offences allegedly committed on the 29th of May, 2023, at the residence of the state governor, Seyi Makinde at Ikolaba, Ibadan.
Alhaji Lamidi had pleaded not guilty to the 17-count charge read to him on November 27th, 202
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