Magistrates Flee Apapa Court Over Fear of Electrocution

By Anya Njoku

It has been a tale of woes for litigants with cases pending at Apapa Magistrate Court as magistrates handling their cases are said to have fled the court premises for fear of being electrocuted as the entire building said to be shocking.

It was reliably gathered that for the past ten months the court building is said to have been having some electrical defects, thereby posing dangers of electrocution for occupants.

Reliable police sources disclosed that consequently, the Magistrate Court has temporarily relocated to the Marine Beach area of Apapa, popularly known as Agbo-Malu.

It was also learnt that out of over 150 pending criminal cases, over 70 per cent of them are said to be shipping and port-related.

A highly placed police source from Apapa Port Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Port Authority Police Command, Western Ports, decried the difficulty presently encountered by police prosecutors in taking cases to new location.

As at the time of filing this report, it could not be ascertained when the court would be returned to its original location.

A highly placed police source from Apapa Port Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Port Authority Police Command, Western Ports, decried the difficulty presently encountered by police prosecutors in taking cases to new location.

As at the time of filing this report, it could not be ascertained when the court would be returned to its original location.