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By Innocent Anaba & Bartholome Madukwe<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere, yesterday, declared as void, an application by the Lagos State\u00a0 praying the court to re-open its case in the on-going trial of Major Hamzat Al-mustapha, Chief Security Officer, CSO,\u00a0 to late military Head of State, General Sani Abacha, and two others, who are being prosecuted over their alleged involvement in the murder of Alhaja Kudirat Abiola.<\/p>\n

Trial judge in the matter, Justice Mojisola Dada, in her ruling\u00a0 on the application, held that same lacked\u00a0 merit and was an attempt by the prosecution to make the court reason alongside its path, and to defeat an earlier order of court.<\/p>\n

According to the court, the said application amounted to prosecutorial rascality, adding that, \u201cit was an insult and an affront on the court to have ordered a case closed after five months and four adjournments for one witness, who happens to be a very high officer in the police and a lawyer and for such officer to refuse to come to court after being repeatedly asked to come to give his witness.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd for the prosecution to have told the court that the court rushed to close its case, is an affront to justice, especially when an order of the court had not been respected by the lead counsel to the prosecution, who happens to come from the Ministry of Justice,\u201d the court said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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By Innocent Anaba & Bartholome Madukwe A Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere, yesterday, declared as void, an application by the Lagos State\u00a0 praying the court to re-open its case in the on-going trial of Major Hamzat Al-mustapha, Chief Security Officer, CSO,\u00a0 to late military Head of State, General Sani Abacha, and two others, who are being prosecuted over their alleged involvement in the murder of Alhaja Kudirat Abiola. 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