The Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday ordered that a former Chairman of the Nigeria Bar Association, Shendam branch, Plateau State, Gabriel Nkup Tsenyen, be remanded in the custody of the Department of State Services pending a decision on the propriety of his fresh arraignment.
Justice Joyce Abdulmalik fixed August 20 to determine whether Tsenyen, who is also a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Plateau State, can be tried afresh over allegations of cyberstalking and incitement of public disturbances.
The development followed an attempt by the DSS to arraign the lawyer on a fresh two-count charge bordering on cyberstalking and incitement to breach public peace.
But shortly after Tsenyen was called into the dock to take his plea, his lead counsel, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Emmanuel Esene, objected to the arraignment.
Esene told the court that his client had already been arraigned before the same court on the same allegations and that the earlier case had been adjourned until September 28 for trial.
