Ogungbeje sought permission to go buy food for his clients, pleading that only a living person can stand trial.
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| Notorious billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans (Naija News) Kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike aka "Evans", has told the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja that he has not been fed well in prison.
Evans
said the last time he was fed by the Nigerian prison authority was five
days before his appearance in court on Friday, November 17, 2017 during
the continuation of his trial before Justice Hakeem Oshodi.
The other defendants are: Uche Amadi, Ogechi Uchechukwu, Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu, Chilaka Ifeanyi, and Victor Chukwunonso Aduba.
"This
is unfair, I have not been given food and change of clothes. I was not
given the opportunity to bathe since Wednesday. They locked us in one
place, no food and no water to bathe. The last we were fed was when a
wife of one of us brought food" he lamented.
Evans' counsel Olukoya Ogungbeje, and Aduba's lawyer, Emmanuel Ochai, also attested to the fact that their clients are being starved.
Ogungbeje sought permission to go buy food for his clients, pleading that only a living person can stand trial.
Ogungbeje said; "apart
from being starved my lord, they are locked up in solitary confinement
with no access to anybody. If this continues, they may not be in the
right frame of mind to continue the trial".
Having listened to the reactions, the presiding judge ordered the prosecutor, Ms. Titilayo Shittay-Bey, to investigate the accusation.
"The
Director of Public Prosecution should please investigate these
allegations. A defendant is innocent until he is proven guilty by a
competent court," he said.
The Lagos
State Prosecutor, Shitta-Bey, in her response told the court that the
prosecution would promptly investigate the allegations.
The
judge thereafter adjourned the matter until January 19, 2018, for
cross-examination of the first witness and continuation of trial.
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