Police Substitute Charges Against Cynthia’s Suspected Killers

Magistrate Olalekan Aka-Bashorun of the Yaba Magistrate Court in Lagos yesterday told suspected killers of Cynthia Osokogu that old things are passed away and all things have become new, after they were re-arraigned in a consolidated charge marked as TA/52A/2012.

The accused persons in the new charge are Okwuno Echezona Nwabufo, 33, Ezike Ilechukwu Olisaeloka, 23, Orji Osita, 32, Maduakor Chukwunonso, 25, Gideon Okechukwu, 39, Ezike Nonso Ifechukwu, 22 and Ezeaka Chinonso, 27.

Aka-Bashorun, after listening to the argument of the defence counsels and prosecutor, agreed with the prosecutor that all the defendants in the matter followed the same transaction, adding “the best thing to do in the case is to pack everybody (defendants) to the DPP. It is for the DPP to say,  you stay here and you stay there.”