Complainant Urges Lagos AG To Dismiss Petition To Stop Trial Of Lawyers Charge With Forgery

The complainant in the criminal charge LD/CR/26/2024, filed against two lawyers and a businessman at the Lagos High Court, TBS, by the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Dr. Obidigwe Eze has urged the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice (AG), Lawal Pedro (SAN) to resist the temptation to discontinue the prosecution as requested by one of the suspects.

The defendants in the charge are Adebayo Akeju of Adon Law Chambers, Ademola Owolabi of Ademola Adetokunbo & Co, and Alex Ochonogor of Bluecrest Homes Limited.

Complainant Urges Lagos AG To Dismiss Petition To Stop Trial Of Lawyers Charge With Forgery

Akeju, who is charged with forgery and damage to property alongside the other two, had on April 25, 2024, written a petition to the AG, praying to him to stop their prosecution in an attempt to mislead him into believing that it is a malicious charge, without even showing up in court to take his plea.

In the petition, which was published in an online platform, titled, “Application for Administrative Review of the Legal Advice on the Referenced Matter”, he made sundry claims to evoke sympathy and mislead the AG, including that the Police investigation report that resulted in the advice to try them was inaccurate.

He claimed that he simply carried out the instruction of his client, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha (Retd), who is the original owner of the land.

According to him, Al-Mustapha said he had lost his original Certificate of Occupancy and so signed a Memorandum of Loss (MoL) for him to use in disposing of the property.