PRINCIPAL Magistrate Ricky Iomea has told an accused Eddie Funubana to cooperate when a lawyer is allocated him.

The accused has been allocated lawyers twice, but they have all withdrawn their services from him.

“If you are allocated with a lawyer you must cooperate with lawyers in order to move your case forward,” Magistrate Iomea told the accused.

The accused Funubana was charged in relation to incident occurred in 2013 where he and other co-accused alleged for abducting a Chinese man.

He was charged with abduction, grievous harm, demanding with menace, larceny from a person, driver to be licensed and vehicle to be licensed.

Police alleged that on that date of the incident the accused Funubana was the driver of the bus used during the incident.

Police said the alleged victim got in the bus at the Ranadi round- about in east Honiara intending to return home to China Town.

Instead of driving back to town the bus changed their direction and headed up to East of Guadalcanal.

It was when they reached the Guadalcanal Plains Palm Oil Limited (GPPOL) in East Honiara, they held the man at knife point and ordered him to give them $100,000 or they would kill him.

The victim was also beaten up by the accused, his phone and $200 cash was also stolen from him.

The allegation further said the accused men then took the Chinese all the way down to west Honiara and further to West Guadalcanal where he luckily escaped through a window when the bus had a tyre puncture.

The Chinese was later picked up by a Hilux and dropped off at the Central Police Station where he reported the matter to police.