Court Frees 34year old Robber

A federal High Court, sitting in Gudu, Abuja, on Monday discharged a 35-year-old robbery suspect, Kelechi Isaac, for lack of diligent prosecution. Isaac was charged for alleged conspiracy and armed robbery. 

The prosecutor,Mrs Ijeoma Ukagha, had told the court that the complainants in the matter had abandoned the case.“Since inception of this matter, the prosecution has been found wanting.

“In spite every attempt to convince the complainants to come for this matter, every attempt has proved abortive,” she said.

The trial judge, Abubakar Talba, said he was discharging Isaac based on the summation of the prosecutor that the complainants had abandoned the case. Talba said that the beauty of prosecution was to prosecute and not to persecute and that where the prosecution was found wanting, the law had to take its course.

He also said that justice delayed was justice delayed, adding that he had no other option than to discharge the defendant. Journalists recall that the defendant, who was first arraigned in court on July 29, 2015, had pleaded not guilty to the two-count charge of conspiracy and armed robbery