DPP takes over prosecution in Akwa Ibom farmer-herder case
DPP takes over When the case came up on Tuesday at the Chief Magistrate Court 1, counsel representing the DPP, Cecile Umana, made an oral application for the police prosecutor, Blessing Essien, to hand over the case file to the DPP’s office.
The development followed an order by the Chief Magistrate, Court 1, Maureen Udoka, on Tuesday, directing the police to hand over the case file to the DPP.
The Akwa Ibom State Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has taken over the prosecution of the criminal case involving a herder accused of allowing cattle to destroy the farmland of investigative journalist and farmer, Ibanga Isine.
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