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The trial opened yesterday in Port Harcourt of the12 suspected killers of four undergraduate students of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) at Aluu community, Ikwerre Local Government Area.
Ugonna Obuzor (18, Theatre Arts), Lloyd Toku Mike (20, Civil Engineering), Chiadika Biringa (20, Theatre Arts ) and Tekena Elkanah (21, Education), were murdered by a mob at Omuokiri,Aluu near UNIPORT on October 5, last year. They were alleged to have stolen telephone handsets.
The prosecution, led by the Solicitor-General and Permanent Secretary, Rivers State Ministry of Justice, Rufus N. Godwins, opened the case when he swore in the first prosecution Witness (PW1), Raphael Ezeji, a senior police officer, who led the investigation into the killings.
Two sets of people –one set charged with murderand the other with negligence – are standing trial.
Charged with murder are: Lawal Segun, ex-Sgt. Lucky Orji, Ikechukwu Louis Amadi (aka Kapoon), David Chinasa Ogbada, Abiodun Yusuf, Joshua Ekpe, Abang Cyril and John Ayuwu. They are the first set of those on trial.
The traditional ruler of Aluu, Alhaj. Hassan Welewa; Okoghiroh Endurance, Ozioma Abajuo and Chigozie Evans Samuel are charged with negligence.
Ezeji, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), who is the second in-command in the Homicide Department of the Rivers State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), told Mr. Justice Latam Nyordee of a State High Court part of his findings on the death of the four youths.
DSP Ezeji said: “I am a staff (employee) of Rivers State Police command, attached to the SCID, Port Harcourt.
“I have worked as a Police officer for more than 25 years, and as a registered detective officer for over 15 years.
“As a criminal dictation officer, my job entails investigation of murder (homicide) cases and other responsibilities assigned to me. On October 5, 2013; my department received a report of the gruesome murder of four undergraduate students of UNIPORT at Aluu.
“The report we received was that these four boyswere stripped naked, paraded with jubilation and about to be set ablaze (lynched) at Omuokiri Aluu. As a result of this (report), the police division Isiokpo dispatched a combined team to rescue the victims, but because of the distance between the scene of crime and Isiopkpo, they had hung condemned tyres on their necks, while some others were with dog, hounding them.”
“The crowd they met on the scene when they arrived were shouting ‘kill them, kill them. Beforethe police could rescue them, they had already poured petrol on them and lit fire,” he told the court.
Ezeji said photographs of the remains of the deceased and the streets on which they were paraded naked were taken during the investigation.
He added that extracts from the video clips of the killing, posted on the internet, formed part of the exhibits attached to the case file submitted to theprosecution. The internet clips were concealed in a CD plate.
Efforts by the prosecution to tender copies of the photographs and thier negative copies as exhibits were objected to by 10 of the 12 defendants.
The court fixed the ruling on the admissibility of the exhibits for later date.
Midway into the hearing, the court allowed time to hear applications for bail of each of the accused persons.
All the 12 accused persons in their independent applications urged the court to admit them to bail. They told Mr. Justice Nyordee that bail is their constitutional right irrespective of the gravity of the offence they were alleged to have committed.
They noted that they were presumed innocent until proven otherwise.
The fifth accused person, 16-year-old Abiodun Yusuf, urged the court to grant him bail, considering his age.
His counsel, G.B.Sanusi, told the court that Yusuf, being a minor, was not supposed to be tried together with other accused persons in the open court.
In their applications, counsel for the second set ofdefendants, including the Aluu monarch, Alhaji Hassan Welewa, urged the court to grant them bail, saying their offences carry lighter punishment of two years, if convicted.
They argued that they had already spent close to one year in detention.
They were charged with negligent, to wit felony to prevent murder, crime and misdemeanour.
The prosecution objected to the bail applications and urged the court to dismiss their applications for lack of merit.
Mr. Godwins averred that bail was at the discretion of the court but insisted that due to theserious nature of the offence the accused are charged with, it would be unusual for any court toconsider granting them bail, without convincing reasons.
On the first set of accused persons (first to eighth)who were charged with murder, the prosecution said: “It is unusual to contemplate to admit a person charged with murder to bail. This is because murder is a very serious offence. For them to be granted bail, they must show cogent reasons to be granted bail. And it must be on the grounds of health.
“In this one, none of them has given any serious reason to be admitted to bail,” he insisted.
He noted that although the offences the second set of accused (ninth to tenth), were charged with are not capital in nature, “however, even in the simplest of offence, bails are not just granted;the decision is strictly at the discretion of the court.”
“The ninth accused person (Alhj. Welewa), is the paramount ruler of Aluu, the scene of crime. He has much influence in his community and most of our witnesses come from there; if he is granted bail, he will use his influence to negatively affect the cause of justice in this matter.
“Moreover, some of the accused persons in this case are still at large, and they live there; so granting him bail will seriously affect the prosecution of this case,” Godwins submitted.
Eighteen suspects were originally held in connection with the killing. The DPP advice last February exonerated seven.
The prosecution added John Ayuwu (aka Johny Barbar) to bring the number of those on trial to 12.
They were arraigned before the court last month with each of the accused pleading not guilty to the charges of murder and felony to prevent crime, preferred against them. The court adjourned till yesterday for bail application.
It was somewhat rowdy yesterday, following the sudden change in the original agreement at the last sitting.
The court at the last session adjourned for motionfor bail, but at the resumed sitting yesterday, the prosecution mounted a projector screen to express its readiness to open the case..
He insisted that the PW1 was in court and that the court could begin hearing the matter and midway, motion for bail taken. After some arguments, the court agreed with the prosecutionagainst the wish of the defence.
The case was adjourned till October 17 for ruling. The courts in Rivers are to begin their yearly vacation on Monday.

harlos: Boko haram is involve ....


*pack his shoes and run off*

hahahahahahahaha....... lwkmd

harlos: I don't joke when it comes to money

OK NO PROBLEM SIR, PLS KINDLY COME TO OUR OFFICE @#31 GRENADE ESTATE OFF BOKO HARAM AVENUE MAIDUGURI TO REDEEM UR PRICE... Thank you

harlos: Wheris my card

i'll sue u ooo

sir abeg no vex na... Na joke wey i joke o

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Date: Tuesday, 13 August 2013 at 09:14
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u didn't get it

harlos: Almost...

Pay me my money sharp sharp

u are a thief... lolz

harlos: Almost...

Pay me my money sharp sharp

u are a thief

keep ur ansas coming

The first person to tell us the exact date n time dat nairaland hits 1111111 registered users and win N3000 mtn recharge card.

mikkyangel: In the next 3rhs i will know if its moving today..

thanks...

PLEASE UPDATE US

Is that not Osaze's mother?.... Just asking.

I opened anoda because i was banned unjustly for more than a week, n i wanted to comment on a thread asap

175: honestly, I have 24 accounts. . .all these was created during the rush for 1 million members. . .

lolz... U must be one of d admin...

I know of som1 dat hav 5 accounts in Nairaland all for different purposes.
mine is only 2,
lets know yours

mikkyangel: Oga dont be pissed off yet ohh,please nor allow pissed off affect you, "BIKO". Goods that were released early last week stayed about about 4weeks with customs(d 1st time this is happening).Doing bizness with Nigeria is serious risk, events may occur which is beyond my control.I had to pay extra 75k to clear them out,yet i didnot charge my clients an extra cent.

Goods have been handed over to my shipping agent since Saturday(proposed ship date), but the person changed her flight arrangement..I nor fit force am her ohh..SO PLEASE OGA, BE PATIENT!

...Shipping and handling period, officially is 10 to 15 bizness days(see front page), i beleve yours is not even up to 10 bizness days yet. So please exercise patience, na beg i dey beg u...


thanks for ur understanding

OK NO PROBS... SO WHEN WILL THE GOODS BE SHIPPED OUT COS FROM UR EXPLANATION I BILIV THE GOODS ARE STILL THERE IN U.S WITH UR AGENT.

Odunharry: it easy what you have 2 do is get a phone that uses whatsapp, copy the whatsapp on ur memory card and insert the memory card on ur fone, you wil see d whatsapp then copy..u r gud to go..

It has been tested on asha 200...

which phone did u copy urs from?

No na... It shd've been ''oyIGBO DOCTOR ARRESTED FOR STEALING IBO FROM THE STOMACH OF AN IGBO MAN''

PLEASE O, LET THEM DO THAT ASAP SO THAT THE NUMBER OF UNWANTED PREGNANCIES WILL REDUCE

You just answered ur questions in one sentence.

WE SHALL NEVER BEG FOR BREAD IN JESUS NAME!

starlight®®:
Facebook stores everyone's number (though still wondering how).....so far the guy is on Facebook n has used his mobile phone to browse you can get him

what abt if d number is not in his profile?

tellwisdom: Get out of my face with your cheap and poor publicity stunt...what if i tell you i own the watch on my profile??

Ebok... Everyone, including urself know u can't afford it.

yemi2plus2: is it just me or my dull brain? See the thief wey you dey find na.

lolz... Na true o

tellwisdom: You bought a cheap low class phone and you are here crying...Guy, go and sleep and wake up the next morning

like i said earlier, the fone is not important but d content is wat she needs most. As a matter of fact i am using nokia lumia 920... So if u dnt hav somtin beta to contribute u better port to the nxt thread.

adewasco2k: get over it, he probably didn't call with his real number.

i tot of dat

not mine sha... Na my junior sis n she has so many skul tinz inside d fone

PLEASE WHO KNOWS A SITE WHERE I CAN SEND A FREE CUSTOMIZED SMS?

starlight®®:
.scan for contacts on Facebook for android....but before scanning know the number of contacts you have that are on your contacts but not on your Facebook friends list. Then add the persons number n rescan ....if you get an additional contacts then that's the guy.

I normally use it when I get a girls number ..will just scan to know more abt her through facebook

I added him on 2go but he didn't accept

thanks for all ur comments... I was thinking of sending a msg to him using a customized name like 'MTN PROMO' that he just won a BB Z10 from mtn n that he should come to mtn office n pick it, then i'll go there n wait for him... But i dnt knw any FREE online sms provider that i can use. Iyam.mobi that i knw doesn't allow free customised sms.