Police fail to produce ‘tortured’ murder suspect in court
The Nigeria Police Force failed to produce a murder suspect, Kolawole Adeleye, before a Lagos Division of the Federal High Court on Wednesday despite an order by a judge. Hadiza Rabiu-Shagari, the judge, had ordered the police to produce Mr. Adeleye after his lawyer accused the police of torturing him in custody and failing to charge him to court weeks after his arrest. The judge gave the order following an oral application by Olanrewaju Ajanaku, counsel to the accused person, on December 29, 2017, in a fundamental rights enforcement suit against the Nigeria Police Force and one Inspector Idowu, the Investigating Police […]
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