The absence of Magistrate Pam Adekomaiya of a Lagos Magistrates’ Court, Igbosere, on Tuesday stalled the arraignment of two sons of a foremost industrialist, late Chief Abdul-Rasak Sanusi.
The siblings – Suleiman and Kehinde Sanusi were to be re-arraigned before the Magistrate on charges of illegal possession of firearms and disobedience of court order under Sections 4 of the Firearms Act, 2004, as well as 104 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos, 2011.
The Sanusi brothers, who had earlier been arraigned before Magistrate Adeola Adedayo, had their case file transferred to Adekomaiya by the state Chief Judge, Justice Olufunmulayo Atilade, after Mrs. Adedayo raised alarm that her life was being threatened.
But the matter was on Tuesday adjourned to August 6, following the unavailability of the presiding magistrate.
The children of the late business mogul have been at loggerheads since 2002 over their father’s last will and testament.
Sulaiman alongside two of his siblings, Risikat Olusanya and Ganiyat Sanusi in 2002, filed suit ID|904M|2002 against their late father’s appointed executors of his estate, Abdul-Mojeed Sanusi, Falilat Sanusi-Lawal, and Bilikisu Sanusi.
The claimants had accused the executors of mismanagement of their father’s estate before Justice Williams-Dawodu.
Ruling on the matter in 2006, the judge ordered Suleiman to surrender all documents relating to the estate in his possession, adding that the respondents should resume joint management of the estate in line with their late father’s will.
She also ordered the executors to submit report of stewardship to the court.