Port Harcourt — Four ex-militants currently standing trial in High Court in Port Harcourt will know their fate on July 1, this year, when judgment on the case brought against them would be delivered.
This is even as the Rivers State Government has refused to hands off the case, despite an earlier directive by the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke to the state government to discontinue the trial, pointing out that the offence on which they are standing trial was committed in 2008, and fall within the Presidential Amnesty.
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