An Onitsha High Court presided over by Justice Alexander Okomah has adjourned till twenty-eight of April for judgment, the high profile case of kidnapping and ransom-taking of a business mogul, Sir G.U. Okeke in Onitsha.
The adjournment followed final adoption of written addresses of the counsel to the defendants and prosecution.
In his final submission to the Court, the prosecution Counsel, Chris Ajugwe, who is appearing with the fiat of the Attorney General of the state, submitted that the defendants, Kelechi Okafor, Anthony Ifeanyi Okafor and Alexanda Onyinanya, conspired and abducted the compliant, Sir G.U. Okeke, as charged in the charge sheet.
In particular, he submitted that the claim of one of the defendants that he was in Ghana on the day of the incident cannot be true.
The prosecutor quoted the Supreme Court Ebri Versus the State, which held that where the prosecutor’s witness has specifically and equivocally pinned down the accused to the scene of the crime, failure to investigate Alibi will not result to the acquittal of the accused.
In their own, submissions while adopting their varius written addresses, the defendants’ counsel, Dan Nwafor, M.O.U. uduma and J.N. Okongwe said that they have proved the case against their clients, beyond
reasonable doubt as required by section thirty six of constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria, 1999.
It could be recalled that Chief G.U. Okeke was kidnapped on the twenty-third of August two thousand and nine.
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