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.