RSG moves to compel IGP, CP to produce sacked factional APC chairman in court for murder trial

Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt

The government of Rivers State has announced plans to interface with the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the state Commissioner of Police to produce the hitherto factional Rivers State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Ojukaye Flag-Amachree, in court for continuation of his murder trial on March 18, 2019. Addressing  journalists after the  Rivers State High Court  sitting in Port Harcourt  on Wednesday adjourned  the murder trial of Hon. Flag Amachree, Counsel to the Rivers State Government, Chief Godwin Obla (SAN) said the interface has become necessary  because  of the refusal of the sacked factional Rivers State APC Chairman  to willingly  appear in court. The Rivers State Counsel noted that the State Prosecution Team would use the gap between now and the next adjourned date to interface with Inspector General of Polic, Muhammed Adamu, and the Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, Usman Belel, to request that they strictly comply with the order of the Court and produce the defendant, Hon. Ojukaye Flag-Amachree on the next adjourned date.             Godwin Obla (SAN) emphasised that if the accused person was not produced on the next adjourned date, there were legal processes to compel the IGP and the Commissioner of Police in Rivers State to produce him. A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt on Wednesday adjourned till 18th of March, 2019 the murder case between the State and the Rivers State factional chairman of APC, Ojukaye Flag Amachree. The trial Judge, Hon. Justice J. N. Akpughunum, adjourned the matter following the absence of the defense counsel and the accused person in Court.    The matter which had earlier been fixed for the 24th January 2019 for the defendant, Hon. Ojukaye Flag Amachree, to take his plea was adjourned to 20th of February 2019 following multiple murder charges levelled against him by the state government.