Anti-Tinubu air passengers remanded, lawyer laments lack of medical examination

Anti-Tinubu passenger aboard an Abuja-Lagos flight, Mr Obiajulu Uja,  has been arraigned before the Zuba Magistrates’ Court, Abuja and remanded in prison custody.

His lawyer,  Ejike Ugwu, disclosed this to The PUNCH on Monday.

Uja was on Friday evening carried off the flight, after he started a lone protest, demanding that the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, must never be sworn in as president on May 29.

A copy of the charge sheet sighted by The PUNCH showed that  Uja was charged with “public nuisance, resistance to a lawful arrest, threatening violence and conduct likely to cause a breach of peace contrary to sections 396, 267,188,172 and 144 of the Penal Code.”

The lawyer said, “He was arraigned at the Zuba Magistrates’ Court after they deceived us because yesterday he was taken to Muhammadu Buhari Police Hospital, Area 11 Abuja.”

The lawyer noted that his client was admitted at the Muhammadu Buhari Police Hospital, adding that the hospital did not have a psychiatrist doctor and psychologist that to examine him.

He said a doctor was invited from National Hospital, Abuja, to examine Uja, adding that the efforts was futile.

 “While we were there, it was around 3pm they told us that they wanted  to arraign him in Zuba Magistrates’ Court.

“We reminded the court that the same police invited the doctor to examine him, and the same police, instead of waiting for the doctors to examine him, hurriedly charged him to court.

“Even with the test we did, we spent almost N40,000 at the police clinic, all the tests they conducted we abandoned all of them; they have not prescribed any medicine.

“The way the police are handling it is as if they have an interest in the matter because you took somebody to a police clinic, you are coming to court to tell the court you want the person to be remanded in prison because you want to continue the investigation.

“Until now we do not know the result of the test that was conducted in the hospital because they hurriedly took him away from the hospital,” the lawyer said,

Ugwu further noted that his client’s bail application was coming up on Thursday.

PUNCH