Nkechinyere Ewa-Okpara
Sunday Ununu, the Abakaliki-based legal practitioner who was accused of killing an orphan, disrupted proceedings in Magistrate Court 1 in the state high court premises where he was arraigned for the alleged murder Friday.
His actions caused a melodrama in the State high court premises.
Ununu, the Principal of Bigbird Chambers in Abakaliki, has been in police
custody for about two weeks now after the bullets he fired from a pistol in his possession hit a 36-year-old orphan, Nnamdi Nwite when Izzi Unuphu’s land power of Attorney was celebrating their election for the new executives of the group.
On Friday afternoon, 6th September 2024, Ununu was docked, but he came out of the dock protesting that the charges against him were not properly entered.
His action disrupted court proceedings in other magistrate courts within Magistrate Court 1, where he was arraigned.
At the end of his one man protest, the legal practitioner was taken out of the court in a branded black police operational vehicle to the police headquarters by armed policemen who brought him to the court while the Magistrate court one couldn’t sit on the matter.
Ununu had grated interview with some journalists after walking out of the dick, but the policemen came to the two journalists, Wilson Okereke of The CITIZENS’ ADVOCATE newspaper and Enyinnaya Omoke of the New Nigeria, ceased their phones and deleted the interview as recorded in the phones.
GROUP PETITIONs IGP
Meanwhile, a right group, Civil Liberty Organization (CLO) has petitioned Inspector General of Police Kayode Egbetokun seeking transfer of the case file to force headquarters, Abuja.
CLO in a statement signed by Kindness Jonah of the Enugu unit of the organization alleged that some disgruntled members of the extended family of the deceased were chimerically insinuating clandestine settlement with some members of the state police command who are in the know of the notorious incident, and are now trying circumventing justice by liaising for a quantifiable settlement without due process.
“Barrister Sunday Ununu should be made to face the full weight of the law for callously cutting short the enterprising life of Mr. Nnamdi Ugo Nwite, and for even trying ‘‘settling’’ with distant relatives of the wasted blood without any modicum of regard for the nuclear family with aged mother, certainly due to their excruciating poverty level”, the petition read in parts.
The petition was copied to Governor Francis Nwifuru, the state Commissioner of Police, the Family of Nnamdi Nwite, and the National Human Rights Commission, among others.
When contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Joshua Ukandu dismissed the insinuations that the command was planning to cover the matter.
“How can we cover the matter? Is he not in our custody? On this issue of his arraignment, I don’t have the details. For now, I don’t know anything about that but I know he has been in our custody”,.