A Chief Justice of the Peace’s Court docket in Enugu East Magisterial District has remanded one Mr. Anthony Onyeukwu, over the dying of an 11-year previous houseboy, Goodluck John.
This, the Enugu State Authorities mentioned, was according to its sustained warfare towards all types of baby abuse. In keeping with the Commissioner for Youngsters, Gender Affairs and Social Improvement, Enugu, Mrs. Ngozi Enih, Mr. Onyeukwu, aged 47, was arrested following a tip-off from one of many Ministry’s whistle-blower channels that Grasp Goodluck John’s dying was linked to abuse within the fingers of the household the place he lived with as a houseboy.
Nonetheless, Mr. Onyeukwu was mentioned to have shortly conveyed and had the stays of the 11-year previous boy buried within the boy’s hometown in Abia State with out reporting his dying to the suitable authorities.
Though he was mentioned to have claimed that the boy had died from an ailment on the Park Lane Hospital, Enugu, there was no file to indicate that the boy was admitted within the hospital or that his corpse was deposited within the hospital’s morgue.
Arraigning the suspect final week, the Police Prosecutor- Inspr Calista Ifeanyi, informed the presiding Chief Administrative Justice of the Peace, Ngozi Edeh Anih that Mr. Onyeukwu had dedicated an offence punishable underneath the Felony Code (Revised) Legal guidelines of Enugu State. The cost sheet marked: CME/631C/2024 learn,
“That you simply, Onyeukwu Anthony ‘m’ on fifteenth day of October, 2024, at about 20:30 hours at No. 4, Mike Onyeka Shut, Loma Linda Extension, Maryland, Enugu, inside the jurisdiction of this honourable court docket, did unlawfully kill one Goodluck John ‘m’ aged 11 years and thereby dedicated an offence punishable underneath Part 274 (1) of the Felony Code, CAP 30, Vol. II, Revised Legal guidelines of Enugu State of Nigeria, 2004.”
The Chief Justice of the Peace subsequently ordered the suspect’s remand within the Correctional Centre, Enugu and, adjourned the matter to November 20, when the report from the Director of Public Prosecutions, Ministry of Justice, Enugu, is anticipated. In the meantime, the Workplace of the Spouse of the Governor of Enugu State, Mrs. Nkechinyere Mbah, has warned towards any type of baby abuse within the state, as no such act would go unpunished.
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