A Lagos State High Court in Ikeja on
Tuesday adjourned further proceedings in the charges filed against the
Registered Trustees of the Synagogue Church of All Nations and four
other till January 27, 2016.
The adjournment followed applications by
the 4th and 5th defendants in the case challenging the competence of
the manner in which the charge was served on them.
When the matter was called in court on
Tuesday, the prosecution team, led by the Lagos State Director of Public
Prosecutions, Mrs. Idowu Alakija, informed the court that the order of
the court had been complied with and the 4th and 5th defendants had been
served.
But counsel for the 4th and 5th
defendants, Chief E.L. Akpofure (SAN), contended that the service was
only effected on Monday, despite that the order was made on December.
Besides, Akpofure argued that the manner in which the prosecution obtained the order for substituted service was unknown to law.
“The application they brought was an ex
parte; we had no voice. What they have done, does the rule provide for
it? If they went to pray for something that is not known to law and they
went out to carry out the action, My Lord, we say it is a nullity,”
Akpofure argued.
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