There was panic on
Tuesday at the Igbosere Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, after a lawyer, identified
only as Chidi, slumped while asking for a change in the adjourned date.
It was
learnt that the lawyer gave up the ghost a few minutes later on the court
premises before he could be conveyed to a hospital.
He had come
late for the trial of his clients – Okedairo Okedeji, 38, and Akolade Agbola,
28 – who were arraigned on February 29 for allegedly stealing meat and snail
worth N28,000 from Southern Sun Hotel in Ikoyi, Lagos.
Chidi, who
appeared before the magistrate, Mrs. F. M. Dalley, after the case had
been adjourned till April 14, apologised to the court that he was held in
traffic.
“While
pleading with the magistrate for a change in the adjourned date because it was
not convenient for him, he started coughing uncontrollably and gasping for
breath,” a police prosecutor at the court told our correspondent.
He added
that the lawyer shouted ‘Obim!’ ‘Obim!’
(My chest, my chest!) as he was rushed outside the courtroom.
“He was
rushed downstairs by one of his clients, who tried to get a cab that would take
him to a hospital. But he died before the cab arrived,” another prosecutor
said.
It was
learnt that his corpse had been deposited at a morgue.
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