The police in Enugu on Friday arraigned a seven-year-old boy, Chibuike Miracle Oramalu, before a magistrate's court over alleged murder.

Chibuike accidentally fired the shot after discovering the gun in Oforma's room while making the bed, as he was instructed by Chukwunanu, Oforma's son.

The owner of the gun which Chibuike accidentally fired, Oforma, was arraigned alongside the seven-year-old boy before Magistrate Hillary Asogwa.

Omotayo explained afterwards that Chibuike's mother informed him that the police told her to bring the boy on Friday morning, only for the boy to be marched to court on their arrival at the Police Headquarters, Enugu.

Chibuike's mother, Nwakaego, while narrating how her son got involved in the alleged murder, had disclosed that on the fateful day, while she was away, the son of her employer, Chukwunanu, a National Youth Service Corps member, asked Chibuike and his 10-year-old elder brother, Ifeanyichukwu, to clean and tidy up his father's room.

Following Chibuike's detention, the lawyer, Omotayo, forwarded a petition to the Inspector-General of Police, demanding the boy's release, saying the boy's detention was "a brutal attack on the rights of the child in Nigeria" and "a very dangerous dimension to rights violations by the Nigeria Police."

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We are socked in hardship already. Why cause more agony for people in this country.
May God help us.

The owner of that gun should be tortured he deserve to die. He is the murderer.
Where the hell did you keep a gun that a 7years old boy was able to access.