Ebonyi court remands four over alleged trial by ordeal, ostracizing , banishment of 2 widows, children
By Editor April 12, 2025 Justice Mrs Nnenna Ogodo, the Chief Magistrate of an Abakaliki Magistrate Court has remanded four persons in prison for the alleged justice jungle. The remanded persons are Egwuonwu Jonah, Sunday Obasi, Ogonnaya Eze (Boss) and Godwin Nwoko-Obi. A charge sheet with suit number MAB/181c/2025 and made available to newsmen said the accused and others now at large were charged with 10 count. The charge sheet said the accused and others now at large committed the offences on February 21, 2025 at Mebi-Okpa Okposi Ohaozara, Ebonyi State. It said the suspects were charged with conspiracy, attempted murder/acts intended to cause grievous harm and armed robbery, trial by ordeal and among others on two widows and a man. Part of the charge sheet read: "That the accused and others now at large on the said date and place in the aforesaid magisterial district did with intent to maim, disfigure or do some grievous harm, unlawfully subjected their vi...