The Federal Excessive Court docket, sitting in Abuja on Thursday, has put aside the warrant of arrest in opposition to Edison Ehie, the Chief of Employees of the Rivers State Governor, and 5 others.
DAILY POST recollects that the court docket granted an arrest warrant on January 31 in opposition to Ehie and 5 others.
The defendants are being prosecuted by the police for his or her alleged involvement within the burning of Rivers State’s Home of Meeting and tried homicide.
In as we speak’s proceedings, Justice Emeka Nwite agreed with the counsel for the defendants that the court docket lacks jurisdiction to have granted the ex-parte software introduced by the Inspector Normal of Police in opposition to Ehie and 5 others as a result of there was no cost pending earlier than his court docket.
The court docket subsequently put aside its ex-parte orders of January 31, 2024, issuing a warrant for the arrest of Ehie and 5 others and declaring them wished.
