The
two men, Maduakor Chukwunonso and Orji Osita who are pharmacists of Oxpharm
Pharmacy, were accused of selling Rohpynol Flunitrazepam-a sedative without
proper prescription and were eventually charged with murder and felony.
Speaking
after their release, counsel to the
pharmacists, Uchenna Nwoye said the pharmacists were released based on the
advice of the Director of Public Prosecution.
According
to Mr Nwoye, the presiding Judge, Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo of the Lagos High
court, had on the 20th of November ruled that “there was no
evidence where the pharmacists had an agreement with the first and second
defendants to kill the late Ms Osokogu.”
He
further ruled that the pharmacists have no case to answer and decided ordered
that the pharmacists should be discharged.
Counsel
to the two pharmacists had proceeded to the High Court following the delay of
the Magistrate Court led by Magistrate Aka-Bashorun to grant the prayer of the
defendants following the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution.
The
duo were earlier charged with the other defendants for unlawfully killing
Cynthia Osokogu by administering her with an obnoxious substance known as
Rohpynol Flunitrazepam tablets which was used to sedate her before her rape and
murder.
Officials
of the Pharmaceuticals Society of Nigeria, however shielded the discharged Pharmacists
from talking to reporters