Nigeria: Bamaiyi Loses Bid Again to Stop Trial

25 January 2003

Lagos — A former chief of army staff, retired Lt.-Gen. Ishaya Bamaiyi, has again lost his bid to stall proceedings in his trial along with four others for attempted murder.

The prosecution had claimed that the accused persons attempted to murder the Publisher of The Guardian newspapers, Mr Alex Ibru, on Feb. 2, 1996.

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