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Court strikes out suit over Twitter rant against Buhari

A Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, has struck the case filed against a 29-year-old Pharmacist, Solomon Akuma, who tweeted that he would ‘pay a Russian sniper to kill Buhari and his former Chief of Staff, the late Abba Kyari’.

Trial judge, Folashade Giwa- Ogunbanjo, while ruling on the matter, on Monday, struck out the case against Akuma, on the ground that it was defective.

The judge said there was no valid charge before the court and that the matter was not diligently prosecuted.

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She said the case file would be returned to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in the office of Attorney General of Federation for further action.

The judge added that the judgement does not give protection to the defendant from future investigation.

Defence counsel, Emmanuel Ukaegbu, prayed the court to discharge the defendant who was in a correctional centre.

Ukaegbu said his client should be released since the matter has been struck out.

The judge, therefore, asked the defence counsel to make a formal application to that effect.

Akuma had been abducted and detained at the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), Abuja, for over 11 months now.

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Akuma’s tweets were in response to a Twitter post asking respondents what their next move would be if they got $1 million.

Akuma’s father, Emmanuel Akuma was deceived by the police in order to get his son arrested.

The father said he had received a call from a person “who disguised to be a person seeking to reward him for praying for him in the past.

“It was me they used as bait to get to my son. They used me as their link. Someone must have dug up my profile and they found out that I was a pastor,” he said.

 

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