DSS CALLS PROSECUTION WITNESS AGAINST KIDNAP SUSPECTS OF PROSPECTIVE NYSC MEMBERS
THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE SERVICE HAS TENDERED BEFORE THE HIGH COURT OF IMO STATE SITTING IN OWERRI, THE ACCOUNT OF THE ARREST AND INVESTIGATION OF THE KIDNAP SUSPECTS OF THE TWENTY PROSPECTIVE CORPS MEMBERS WHO WERE TRAVELLING TO ABIA AND AKWA IBOM STATES FOR ORIENTATION CAMP.
LED IN EVIDENCE BY THE PRINCIPAL STATE COUNSEL, THE PROSECUTION WITNESS, IKECHUKWU EMMANUEL, TOLD THE COURT THAT THE FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD DEFENDANTS THROUGH TECHNICAL DATA ANALYSIS, CALL DATA ANALYSIS AND VALUABLE INFORMATION WERE ARRESTED ON TRANSIT BETWEEN RIVERS AND ABIA STATES, WHILE OTHERS WERE AT LARGE .
THE PROSECUTION WITNESS REVEALED THAT THE DEFENDANTS WERE ARRESTED FOR OFFENCE OF OATH TAKING FOR CONSPIRACY, HOSTAGE TAKING TO COLLECT RANSOM AND SUBSEQUENT COLLECTION OF RANSOM AS WELL AS UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF FIREARMS
THE PROSECUTION WITNESS, THE DEFENDANTS WERE PARADED AND WERE IDENTIFIED BY WITNESSES INCLUDING SOME OF THE HOSTAGES. THERE WAS ALSO AN AUDIO-VISUAL RECORDING OF THE CONFESSIONAL STATEMENTS OF THE DEFENDANTS IN THE PRESENCE OF THEIR DEFENSE COUNSEL IN A CONDUCIVE OPEN ENVIRONMENT.
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