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Stop Leaving Charms in My Court, Declares Judge

Equity Hakeem Oshodi of an Ikeja High Court has cautioned individuals from people in general to quit leaving charms in his court.

Oshodi gave the admonition on Monday as the preliminary of five men accused of the homicide of one Ifeanyi Etunmuse started.

“Nobody ought to leave charms in my court. It ought not be rehashed. A charm was found after the last dismissed date in the homicide case,” he said.

The adjudicator, who alluded to the appeal as ‘property’, cautioned the court crowd: “Don’t leave your property here once more. It doesn’t work any longer.”

PROPOLITICS reports that the Lagos state government brought charges against the five suspects; Atunrase Omolabi, Shittu Olawale, Olaide Opeifa, Olanrewaju Adebiyi also known as Maja, and Jamiu Omosanya otherwise known as Orobo.

They were accused of endeavored endlessly murder of Etunmuse at Western Memorial service Home, Ijede Ikorodu.

Prior in the preliminary, the guard counsel went on with the questioning of the arraignment witness, Babatunde Olayinka.

Olanrewaju Ajanaku, the lead protection direction to the first, second, and third litigants and later on the fifth respondent, inquired as to whether he could say that the respondents contributed to the assault on the departed.

He likewise inquired as to whether he had the option to get a perspective on the compound of the neighborhood legislator and memorial service administrations money manager, Oluwatosin Onamade from his concealing spot following the supposed assault.

The observer let the court know that he concealed himself in the burial ground, and set down for some time to conceal himself from a gathering of men that he saw using cleavers at the Onamade compound upon the arrival of the episode, April 16, 2021.

The observer further let the court know that as he concealed himself from the blade employing men, he pivoted and saw a dead body close to him.

Ajanaku asked the observer: “Might you at any point say decidedly that the first, second, third and fifth litigant had a say in the body you saw?”

The observer answered that he was unable to say determinedly that the litigants had a say in the body.

The safeguard direction to the fourth respondent, Mahmud Adesina, went on with the questioning of the indictment witness and addressed him on whether he had told the court before that Femi Onamade, a relative of Oluwatosin Onamade, was the person who knew the litigants face to face.

Olayinka avowed that it was Femi who knew the respondents and Oluwatosin who can recognize them.

The arraignment counsel, Mr M. T. Adewoye, rethought the observer and requested that he explain everything he implied when he said to the court before that he was unable to recognize the respondents.

Olayinka let the court know that he to be sure saw the blade employing men when they came into the compound.

Adewoye mentioned the court to give an observer summons for Femi Onamade to show up in court.

The appointed authority, then, at that point, gave an observer summons for Femi Onamade.

The adjudicator concluded the matter until Feb. 19, 2024, for the continuation of preliminary.

On a past trial on April 6, the indictment had claimed that the suspects likewise slit off the wrist of Femi Onamade, the more youthful sibling to Tosin Onamade.

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