According to the prosecution, the suspect, standing trial in a case of alleged assault, escaped from police custody on Sept 11, 2015 while being taken to court for arraignment.
The prosecution told the court that the suspect, in hand-cuffs, and accompanied by a female Investigating Police Officer (IPO), pushed the latter out from a taxi inside traffic along Akilo Road, Ogba, Lagos and took to his heels.
It alleged that efforts by the IPO to catch him proved abortive until September 12, when the suspect’s elder brother, Emmanuel Nathaniel Akpan, came to the police station and demanded that the police produce his brother whom they arrested for assault on September 7.
The source added that, after serious interrogation by the police, the elder brother confessed that the suspect escaped from police custody and was at home. He was then compelled to lead the police to their house in Alapere area of Lagos where both of them were arrested. The prosecution asked the court not to grant bail to the two suspects, stressing that they would disappear, particularly as they had not produced the police hand cuffs.
The court ordered that the main suspect be remanded in prison custody while his elder brother that allegedly aided and abetted him be granted bail in the sum of N50,000 with two sureties in like sum.
Both matters were adjourned for ruling on bail for the remanded suspect and mention for the second suspect.
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