GEORGE ADUMU V. THE COMPTROLLER OF PRISONS, FEDERAL PRISONS, ABA & ORS

UWANI MUSA ABBA AJI, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the decision of the Federal High Court, Umuahia, presided over by Hon. Justice M. G. Umar, delivered on the 1st day of March, 2012, wherein the Learned trial Judge ordered that the suit be transferred to the Port Harcourt Judicial Division of the Federal High Court where the alleged infringement was alleged to have occurred.

A synopsis of the facts leading to this appeal according to the Learned Counsel for the Appellant, Mr. George T. Ogara, Esq., are that the Appellant was the accused person at the Magistrate Court of Rivers State in the Port Harcourt Magisterial District before His Worship B. G. Macfarlene, for the offences of conspiracy, cultism, threatening violence, threat to kill, illegal possession of firearm and attempted kidnap contrary to sections 516 (A) and (a) and 86 of the Criminal Code Law, Cap 37, Vol. 11, Laws of Rivers State, 1999, Section 1(a) of the Secret Cult and Similar Act…