An Anambra State Magistrate Court sitting at Amawbia, presided over by
Mr Mike Anyadiegwu, has given a key witness, Dr Anwuri Aguiyi, up to
the second of August 2019, to make available to the court, the copies
of the threatening newspaper publications against her, alleged to have
been sponsored by one Mr. Chukwunonyem Nweke.
Mr Nweke is standing trial, under the leave of the Commissioner of
Police, for alleged offences, bothering on the complaints made by the
said Dr Aguiyi.
The defendant, Mr Chukwunonye Nweke, from Umudioka, in Awka South
Local Government Area, is facing defamatory and threat-to-life charges
for alleged outbursts against Dr Añuri Aguiyi, also from the same
village.
Dr Aguiyi, a teacher with the Nwafor Orizu College of Education
Nsugbe, in her submission told the court that the suspect, in
collaboration with two named friends, had made continuous threats to
her life and defamed her personality on Facebook page known
as Awka Thirty-Three Villages.
She also alleged to have received threatening phone calls from the
suspect and his cohorts. She said the accused, who is her neighbour, had land boundary disputes with her family which had been ruled by a court in her favour in May, 2018, by a retired Chief Judge of the State.
However, the accused, Mr Nweke, who spoke to pressmen, is alleging
that the court judgement which ruled in favour of the witness was
fabricated to keep him quiet.
He said the witness took away the only land left for him by his late
parents, as well as colluded with some law enforcement agents to keep
away the evidence file he submitted against her in the first suit.
Adjourning the matter to the second of August, 2019, Magistrate
Anyadiegwu, said it was to enable the witness Dr Aguiyi present before
the court tangible evidence supporting her allegations.
