Section 179 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 179 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Warrant for witness after summons. It provides as follows:

If the person to whom any such summons is directed does not appear before the Court at the time and place mentioned therein, and there does not appear to the Court on inquiry to be any reasonable excuse for such nonattendance, then, after proof to the satisfaction of the Court that the summons was duly served or that the person to whom the summons is directed wilfully avoids service, the Court, on being satisfied that such person is likely to give material evidence, may issue a warrant to arrest him and to bring him, at a time and place to be mentioned in the warrant, before the Court in order to testify.