{"id":53226,"date":"2024-10-10T14:04:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T14:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/court-adjourns-hearing-over-absence-of-kidnap-kingpin-evans\/"},"modified":"2024-10-10T14:04:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T14:04:43","slug":"court-adjourns-hearing-over-absence-of-kidnap-kingpin-evans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/court-adjourns-hearing-over-absence-of-kidnap-kingpin-evans\/","title":{"rendered":"Court adjourns hearing over absence of kidnap kingpin Evans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A Lagos High Court Sitting in Ikeja has adjourned the arraignment and plea bargain outcome of convicted kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans till November 21.<\/p>\n<p>Hearing in the plea bargain application filed by the kidnap kingpin, could not proceed on Thursday due to the absence of the Evans and his counsel in court.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution, the Lagos State Government was also absent.<\/p>\n<p>Evans and his co-defendant, Joseph Emekam are standing trial on a five-count charge bordering on conspiracy, kidnapping and attempted murder preferred against them by Lagos Government.<\/p>\n<p>At the last sitting of the court on May 11, the prosecution counsel, Yusuf Sule, told the court that the defendants had applied for a plea bargain agreement.<\/p>\n<p>He further revealed that the plea bargain terms were being considered by the Attorney-General of Lagos State, Lawal Pedro, SAN.<\/p>\n<p>However, when the case was brought up on Thursday, the counsel to Evans\u2019s co-defendant, Nelson Onyejaka, who was present in court, expressed surprise that the prosecution and the first defendant\u2019s counsel were absent.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Coker ordered that a production warrant be issued for the arraignment of the defendants on Nov. 21. She also adjourned for a report on the plea bargain outcome.<\/p>\n<p>Court adjourns hearing over absence of kidnap kingpin Evans<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lagos High Court Sitting in Ikeja has adjourned the arraignment and plea bargain outcome of convicted kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[614,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-court","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}