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False Information: Court Adjourns Melaye’s Case indefinitely

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May 17, 2018
Senator Dino Melaye in Hospital
Senator Dino Melaye in Hospital

False Information: Court Adjourns Melaye’s Case indefinitely
The trial of the senator representing Kogi West senatorial district in the senate, Dino Daniel Melaye in the alleged false information dissemination brought against him by the Federal Government suffered a major setback in Abuja.

An Abuja high court trying the senator in the alleged offense adjourned the trial sine die (indefinitely) following the confirmation by the National Hospital, Abuja, which the lawmaker was on admission at the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital.

Dino was billed to appear for trial yesterday but his lead counsel, Mr Rickey Tarfa (SAN), in an application to justify the absence of the senator informed the court that his client was still lying critically ill at the National Hospital.

The senior lawyer tendered a medical report signed by Dr O O Olaniran, Director of Medical Services, which confirmed that the senator was being managed at the Intensive Care Unit.

Tarfa therefore urged the trial judge, Justice Olasunbo Goodluck to consider the ill health of the national lawmaker as a special circumstance that warranted his absence from trial.

He urged the court to adjourn the trial pending the time his client would recuperate from the sickness and be able to stand before the court to answer the two-count criminal charge against him.

However, counsel to the Federal Government, Mr Shuaib Labaran, vehemently opposed the request for the adjournment on the ground that there was no fact before the court that Melaye was arrested by the police and got injured in the process.

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Labaran who is from the Federal Ministry of Justice insisted that counsel to Melaye relied on media report in his claim of police arrest of his client and urged the court to discountenance the claim.

Besides, the counsel faulted the medical report from the National Hospital, claiming that it was not admissible in evidence because it was not a certified true copy of the original.

He also claimed that a counsel from Rickey Tarfa’s chambers who deposed to the affidavit on the request for adjournment was not a medical officer and therefore not in position to ascertain the health condition of the senator.

However, in her ruling, Justice Olasunbo Goodluck held that from the gamut of the entire facts placed before the court, the prosecution did not controvert the fact that the defendant was in the National Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.

The judge agreed that the photocopy of the medical report was admissible in an interlocutory application as in the instance case and therefore rejected the submissions of the prosecution.

Justice Goodluck further held that it is fair and just for the court to examine all facts placed before it and that in doing so, it has been established that the defendant is having health challenges in the hospital.

The judge, therefore, adjourned the case sine die pending the recovery of the senator from the sickness to stand trial.

It will be recalled that Federal Government had on March 1 slammed a two-count criminal charge against Melaye on the allegation that he gave false report to the police in the alleged attempt by some people to assassinate him in Kogi State.

Speaking with judiciary correspondents shortly after the ruling, Labaran said that the prosecution will abide by the court decision but that a close watch will be placed on Melaye so as to bring him to court for trial upon his discharge from the hospital.

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