{"id":4154,"date":"2011-12-01T23:03:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T23:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/enugu-pdp-councillorship-candidate-arraigned-for-alleged-murder\/"},"modified":"2011-12-01T23:03:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T23:03:18","slug":"enugu-pdp-councillorship-candidate-arraigned-for-alleged-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/01\/enugu-pdp-councillorship-candidate-arraigned-for-alleged-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Enugu PDP councillorship candidate arraigned for alleged murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"111\">\n<p>By\u00a0 Chinenyeh Ozor<br \/>Enugu \u2014\u00a0 Forty-eight hours after the chairmanship candidate of the People\u2019s Democratic Party, PDP, in Igboeze North Local Government Area of Enugu State, Mr Bonaventure Onuh, appeared at an Nsukka High Court, charged with attempt to kidnap a bank manager, another PDP councillor ship candidate in the area was yesterday arraigned in court for alleged murder.<\/p>\n<p>However, there was drama as the accused, Mr Emmanuel Eze, escaped from the Enugu High Court, sitting at Enugu Ezike, shortly after the presiding judge, Justice Ray Ozoemena, had ruled that he had a case to answer in the killing of late Mr Simeon Ezeja Ali from Aji, in the area, in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The two candidates were elected at the party\u2019s primaries to contest the December 10 local government election in the state.<\/p>\n<p>One of Eze\u2019s alleged accomplice, Innocent Eke, is already in prison custody over the issue.<\/p>\n<p>According to the First Information Report, FIR, late Ali, a palm wine tapper with eight children, was murdered in 2006 when Eze, along with other accused persons, allegedly assailed him while he was on a palm tree and cut the climbing rope, as a result of which the deceased fell off the tree and died instantly.<\/p>\n<p>Hearing on the mater has been adjourned to December 15.<\/p>\n<p>Eze, the PDP candidate for Aji\/Essodo Ward I, Innocent Eke and five others, were about six months earlier, charged for conspiring among themselves to kill the said Simeon Ezeja Ali.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Ozoemena\u2019s ruling was sequel to the application brought by the prosecuting Counsel, Uche Omeje that all those standing trial for conspiracy in the murder of Simeon Ezeja Ali be charged with murder alongside Innocent Eke who confessed to the murder of Ali in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Eze who would have been re-arraigned with Innocent Eke, however, beat the security cordon in the court as he quietly sneaked out of the court and jumped into a waiting motorcycle and melted into the air before the court officials and police could know what was happening.<\/p>\n<p>Omeje who is prosecuting the matter with fiat expressed surprise at the escape of the accused person from the open court while speaking in an interview with Vanguard on the matter, saying however that the suspect was only buying time.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the case, nine accused persons were granted bail, out of which two have died.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the Chairmanship candidate of the PDP in the area, Mr Onuh appeared before an Nsukka High Court Tuesday charged along three other persons for alleged attempt to kidnap the branch Manager of Bank PHB, Nsukka, Mr Kevin Ezeja, sometime in 2009.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>View post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2011\/12\/enugu-pdp-councillorship-candidate-arraigned-for-alleged-murder\/\" title=\"Enugu PDP councillorship candidate arraigned for alleged murder\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Enugu PDP councillorship candidate arraigned for alleged murder<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By\u00a0 Chinenyeh Ozor Enugu \u2014\u00a0 Forty-eight hours after the chairmanship candidate of the People\u2019s Democratic Party, PDP, in Igboeze North Local Government Area of Enugu State, Mr Bonaventure Onuh, appeared at an Nsukka High Court, charged with attempt to kidnap a bank manager, another PDP councillor ship candidate in the area was yesterday arraigned in court for alleged murder. However, there was drama as the accused, Mr Emmanuel Eze, escaped from the Enugu High Court, sitting at Enugu Ezike, shortly after the presiding judge, Justice Ray Ozoemena, had ruled that he had a case to answer in the killing of late Mr Simeon Ezeja Ali from Aji, in the area, in 2006. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Enugu PDP councillorship candidate arraigned for alleged murder - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/01\/enugu-pdp-councillorship-candidate-arraigned-for-alleged-murder\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Enugu PDP councillorship candidate arraigned for alleged murder - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By\u00a0 Chinenyeh Ozor Enugu \u2014\u00a0 Forty-eight hours after the chairmanship candidate of the People\u2019s Democratic Party, PDP, in Igboeze North Local Government Area of Enugu State, Mr Bonaventure Onuh, appeared at an Nsukka High Court, charged with attempt to kidnap a bank manager, another PDP councillor ship candidate in the area was yesterday arraigned in court for alleged murder. 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