Evans’ lawyer loses court case, to pay N500,000 fine

The lawyer standing for kidnap kingpin , Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike , aka Evans , has lost yet another case in court .
Evans ’ counsel , Olukoya Ogungbeje, was defeated on Friday , when Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court in Lagos dismissed two fundamental rights applications filed by him , according to an online medium ,
NewsMakers .
Ogungbeje had reportedly filed the case on behalf of his clients , Messrs Chief Kenneth Chukwuemeka Ajoku and Chidinma Ozurumba , against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, but it was dismissed for lack of merit and for being frivolous .
The judge also awarded a total cost of N 500 ,000 against the two petitioners .
READ : Kidnap kingpin , Evans , files fresh suit against police , seeks N 300m in damages
Other respondents in Ajoku ’ s suit are a Lagos- based lawyer , Mr. Taiwo Kupolati , Folorunsho Sholanke , Jide Olaleye, Abraham Ogunleye , Kolade Akinwunmi and Dr. Ishaku Danladi Msheliza.
The two petitioners , in suits marked FHC/ L/ CS/736/ 2017 and FHC/ L/ CS 803/ 2017, had urged the court to declare that the arrest and detention by the operatives and agents of EFCC on May 4 , at the instigation of other respondents for taking up the brief of his client and without cause , was “ illegal , wrongful , unlawful , and unconstitutional as it violates the applicant ’ s fundamental rights as guaranteed under sections 33 , 34 , 35 and 36 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria . ”
Responding to the suits, the EFCC , in two separate counter - affidavits deposed to by Ayodele Samuel and Makinde Adebayo , and argued before the court by Banjo James, urged the judge to refuse the applicants’ applications for being frivolous and lacking in merit .
Delivering judgment on the two applications on Friday , Justice Buba , while dismissing the two applications for lacking in merit and being frivolous , awarded a total cost of N 500 ,000 against the two applicants in favour of the EFCC and other respondents.
READ ALSO : Charge Evans to court , don ’t bungle case , lawyers tell police
Two weeks ago, Ogungbeje filed such fundamental rights suit against police authorities in a bid to set Evans free , claiming that the police illegally detained the suspect who had made a series of televised confessions on how he had kidnapped his victims and kept them for as long as seven months until their families coughed out as much as $ 1 m .
A victim ’s son had revealed that his 86-year - old father was killed by Evans and his gang after he had paid a huge ransom .

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