The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday ordered the Department of State Services (DSS) to investigate allegation by the prosecution that part of the evidence it tendered in court and served on lawyers to the defendants were displayed on social media.
Justice Joyce Abdulmalik also ordered that if there was any evidence on social media, which contravened the court’s earlier order for witnesses’ protection, the DSS should investigate and bring the perpetrators to book.
The judge said the investigation should be conducted while the trial is ongoing since all the defendants, through their lawyers, denied being involved.
Counsel to the prosecution, Rotimi Oyedepo, SAN, had mid way into proceedings, told the court that he got information that some videos tendered in the case were posted on social media by a citizen called Very Dark Man. He urged the judge to order that investigation be conducted to ascertain how the materials got to the hand of the said citizen.
Six men are presently being prosecuted over their alleged involvement in an alleged coup plot to topple the President Bola Tinubu-led government.
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