By Okechukwu Onuegbu
Awka
An Awka Chief Magistrate Court 3 sitting in Anambra State has adjourned to November 18, 2020 the case of defamation of character brought against one Mr Joseph Nnajiofor of Amachalla village Amenyi -Awka.
Nnajiofor had petitioned the police against his sibling -Ozo Obiekwe Nnajiofor and others, accusing them of kidnapping and inflicting him with grievous physical injuries, and dumping him in a bush in a far away location to die, thereby making the police arrest the complainants.
A police detective, Kalu Onyemelam, an Assistant Superintendent(ASP),
from the Criminal Investigative Department (CID) of the Anambra state Police Command explained that when the case was assigned to him to investigate, after a thorough job on the matter he discovered it was an orchestrated false information.
“I studied the case file carefully, saw that the defendant made a statement that one Barrister Anyanti Joseph who claimed to be a good Samaritan had picked the victim (Nnajiofor) where he was lying unconscious at a bush location in Abagana area in pool of blood and took him to the police station. I invited them (defendant and Lawyer) on several occasion to report at State CID through the phone numbers they attached but they refused to honour the invitation", he stated.
This, the police detective disclosed, led to the arrest of the complainant for presenting false and misleading information to the police.
Earlier, a state counsel -G. B. Obi Esq told the court that the defendant was yet to settle out of court with his brother (the plaintiff) as promised and agreed before the honourable court earlier which was also admitted by the defense counsel.
Joseph Nnajiofor (aka Ego Oyibo) was earlier sentenced to two months community service of clearing the Magistrate Court premises, one month imprisonment and five hundred thousand Naira (N500,000) as compensation to the complainant for monies spent in tracing, trailing and tracking the defendant down to face the Contempt charge for jumping bail and absconding.
In a two count charge ref MAW 162c/ 2016, he was charged with giving false and misleading information to the police, which led to the arrest, detention and interrogation of Ozo Obiekwe Nnajiofor, Rev Cannon Kenneth Maduka and John Nnajiofor, Christopher Nnake, Okechukwu Nnajiofor, and Joseph Ifeatu Okonkwo.
Factcheckng learnt that he later sought bail from the State High Court and it was granted with a surety in the sum of two hundred thousand Naira together with an evidence of means, but after hearing the application, it revoked the bail and consequently ordered him to complete his initial sentence.
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