Agbasimalo: Court To Rule On Bail Application By Suspected Kidnappers Of Anambra LP Guber Candidate On October 4

By Chuks Eke

The Anambra State High Court in Ihiala, presided over by Justice C. N. Mbonu-Nwenyi, has reserved a decision for October 4, this year in two separate motions for bail filed by each of the two suspected kidnappers of Obiorah Agbasimalo, the Labour Party, LP governorship candidate in the 2021 Anambra state gubernatorial election.

The adjournment occurred on Tuesday, shortly after the applicants and respondent adopted their counter-motions and written addresses.

Justice Mbonu-Nwenyi, the trial judge in the main suit in which the applicants, Chukwudi Odimegwu and Maxwell Nwokolo, are currently on trial as suspected kidnappers of Agbasimalo, has also adjourned the matter until July 19, this year for the continuation of cross-examination of one of the prosecution witnesses, Chief Godwin Agbasimalo (aka Oga Ndi Oga), elder brother to the kidnapped victim and sponsor of his governorship campaign organisation.

The defendants/applicants, Chukwudi Odimegwu and Maxwell Nwokolo, filed Motion Nos. HIH/M6c/2023 and HIH/242M/2023 through their legal counsels, B. I, Nkememena Esq and Ikenna Thebidiegwu Esq, requesting that the court grant them bail so that they can face the proper trial of their kidnapping accusations.

However, in a counter-motion, the prosecution counsel, Charity Madukaife Esq, an Assistant Director in the Anambra State Ministry of Justice, objected to their bail applications, arguing that a capital offence such as kidnapping is not bailable.