BY NWABUEZE OKONKWO

ONITSHA—An Onitsha High Court in Anambra State, presided over by Justice Chudi Nwankwo yesterday granted an application to bring and display all the weapons used during the kidnap of Chairman of GUO Motors Limited, Chief Godwin Okeke in Onitsha on Sunday, August 23, 2009, by his kidnappers.

Justice Nwankwo, who granted the application at the resumed hearing of the case, ordered that the matter be stood down midway into the evidence of the third Prosecution Witness, PW3, Victor Edet, one of the police officers who investigated Okeke’s kidnap case between 2009 and 2011.

Nwankwo’s order to stand down the case came immediately after Edet listed the names and types of the weapons used during the kidnap as the prosecution counsel, Chris Ajugwe, informed the court that police authorities in Anambra State were insisting that it was only Edet that can sign and collect the weapons from the police armoury.

Ajugwe, therefore, begged the court to stand the case down so Edet could go to State Special Anti-Robbery Squad Headquarters, Awkuzu, to sign and bring the weapons for display in the court that same yesterday.

The court granted Ajugwe’s request and stood the case down.

When Edet did not come back within, the prosecution and defence counsel went back to the court and informed the presiding judge that they learnt there were some hiccups, and they prayed the court to shift the matter till the next adjourned dates being April 1, 3, 4 and 9, for continuation, which the court granted.