Judge handling Melaye’s attempted assassination suit dies during watch night service

Justice Aromeh Benson Akogu, the Kabba Resident High Court Judge in Kogi
handling the case of attempted assassination of Senator Dino Melaye, is
dead.

The News Agency of Nigeria gathered that the judge died in Anyigba on
December 31, 2017 at about 11:40pm during a watch night service to 2018.

According to a reliable source close to the family, Akogu, who had vowed
not to sleep before the cross-over to 2018, was not sick, nor did he
show any symptoms of ill health.

His wife, Vicky, who confirmed the death, said the late judge and a
one-time Director of Public Prosecution in the state, was hale and
hearty before his sudden death.

She said that she watched her husband’s death like a movie and could hardly believe it.

Commenting on the incident from Akogu family house in Idah, the Chief
Registrar of the State High Court, Yahaya Ademu, said the body had been
deposited at the Grimmard Hospital Mortuary, Anyigba.The late judge, in
his late 50s, was until his death, handling the case of an attempted
assassination of Melaye.

NAN reports that the Ijumu Local Government Administrator, Taofiq Isah, and four others are being tried in the matter.