"The Umukam Okaiuga Nkwoegwu Autonomous Community in Ohuhu, Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State is in deep shock and fear arising from a bizarre incident and conduct of Chief Magistrate Mirabel C. ken Ahukanna of the Afugiri Magistrate Court in Umuahia North LGA.
The community in recent times has been embroiled in incidences of
indecent molestations, sexual assaults and rapes of adolescent males in
the community orchestrated by a 74 years old man, Nwoke Simeon Ogbuehi
also from the community
Luck however ran out on Ogbuehi on
Thursday 26 day of May 2016 when the youths of Okaiuga community caught
him in the act forcefully having carnal knowledge of 14 years old JS2
pupil Master Chukwuebuka Uchendu.
The community promptly handed
Ogbuehi and his victim to the police at the divisional police station at
Afugiri, who then took over the investigation and thereafter arraigned
the suspect before the Chief Magistrate Court, Afugiri.
It was at this juncture that the matter took a bizarre turn.
It was at this juncture that the matter took a bizarre turn.
When the case came up before Chief Magistrate Mirabel C. ken Ahukanna
and after querying the victim in open court who narrated his repeated
ordeals at the hands of Ogbuehi, the chief Magistrate promptly
discharged the accused on the grounds that the holding cell at Afara
prison has no space to take in further inmates and with that released a
suspected pedophile back to the community to continue his dastardly
acts.
The victims and community now lives in fear and
apprehension as Ogbuehi even within the court premises threatened to get
back at the community for exposing and humiliating him.
We call
on the relevant authorities in Abia State and the office of the
Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice to quickly intervene and
arrest this ugly development before it tarnishes the image of God own
state further"
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