Chief Magistrate Nnenna Onuoha of a Magistrates’ Court in Ebonyi, on Friday, January 3, 2019, remanded a hair stylist, Christian Nweke, in a restorative office for executing a two-year-old kid, Onyedikachi Nwali.
Punch reports that the speculate who had admitted to the wrongdoing, guillotined the kid and simultaneously, drank his blood, while the mother of the unfortunate casualty went to get water from a stream.
The occurrence happened a year ago (2019), December 13, when the suspect was brought to the Church of Christ Mission, Ugbaenyim Ezza, Umuhuali people group, in the Ishielu Local Government Area of Ebonyi, because of a chest torment.
Lamentably, Nweke’s injured individual and his folks were additionally looking for otherworldly assistance at the congregation, during the time the suspect was gotten.
When inquired as to whether he was a ritualist or sent to murder and suck the blood of the kid for cash customs, Nweke stated, “No. I’m not a ritualist. No one sent me to execute anyone. In any case, I saw that since the prophetess of this supplication service appealed to God for me, a great deal of things have changed and I never again reason right.”
In the wake of going through around three weeks in police authority, the suspect was charged under the steady gaze of the officers’ court on one tally of homicide.
The police investigator, Sergeant Sebastine Alumona, said the offense was culpable under Section 319 (1) of the Criminal Code, Cap. 33, Vol. 1, Laws of Ebonyi State of Nigeria, 2009.
The resistance counsel applied to the court that his customer be confessed to bail as he would not meddle with legitimate examination concerning the issue.
Alumona, be that as it may, restricted the bail application and told the court that the suspect would hop bail and meddle with examination concerning the issue.
In her decision, the Chief Magistrate said the court did not have the locale to give abandon such cases, after which she coordinated that the denounced be remanded in the Nigerian Correctional Center, Abakaliki, while his case document ought to be moved to the Director of Public Prosecutions in the state for guidance.
Onuoha deferred the issue till January 17, 2020, for the report of consistence.
