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Tuesday 20 August 2019

Attempted Murder: Man Faults DPP’s Advice For Trial, Claims Wife Is An Aggressor

LAGOS – A 45- year -old man, Godwin Nwobike has faulted the advice issued against him by the Office Of Directorate of Public Prosecution, Lagos in connection with the rift between him and his wife, Stella.

The estranged husband, Nwobike said he feels dejected and harassed by the institution meant to protect him as he is of the opinion that justice is eluding him in this matter, following the Advice dated January 23, 2019 reference number LJP/HOM 2019 / 143/16 addressed to the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Yaba Lagos among other things recommended him for attempted murder trial.

This Advice is sequel to the request from the Police dated September 13, 2018 with Ref number CB; 3514/LSX/D4/ VOL; 10/86.

The summary of the Advice is a charge of attempt to murder his Wife, Stella Nwobike. But Godwin felt let down as he claimed the basis of the Advice was at variance to what really transpired between him and his wife.

Counsel to the aggrieved husband, Mr. Shaw Jason has however written a petition to the DPP seeking a review of the Advice.

According to him, the basis for the DPP’S Advice suggested a lopsided evaluation of the facts.

He stated that the evaluation of the facts, as stated in the DPP advice relied solely on three statements viz :The story of Stella Nwobike, The story of Chioma Iwu ( sister to Stella) and the story of the 10- year- old daughter of the Nwobike’s not taken independently by the police but in the presence of an interested party the brother to Stella many days after the incident had occurred.

He claimed that, this stand consequently ruled out the evidence of other witnesses to the case who saw the said Stella Nwobike and Chioma Iwu boasting that they will kill the said Mr Nwobike if he returns to the house while he was still in the pool of blood.

He referred to the statement of Stella Nwobike (one of the suspects now turned complainant by the automatic authority of the DPP) dated July 28, 2018 at Ogombo police station where she claimed that her husband collected her phone from the side of the bed where she was sitting and in a struggle to recover the phone from him he used something like touch light on her body and she started feeling cool inside of her and passed out immediately.

In another breadth on July 30 2018, the same complainant claimed the husband attempted to use a pillow to suffocate her, she claimed she was rescued when her daughter’s scream attracted the attention of her sister and neighbors who resuscitated her. But a report from Budo hospital in Ajah was on the contrary, she was certified fit upon medical examination. This is the report the Police Officer Inspector Akande Suleiman gave pursuant to his investigation and arrest of the said Nwobike Stella from Budo hospital.

The Lawyer further claimed that the legal advice did not provide any basis for naming his Client, Nwobike Godwin as accused person’

He also wondered why the complainant’s sister was not charged for attempted murder despite the severe injuries by stabbing with broken bottle she inflicted on Mr. Nwobike and the medical report which revealed that Mr. Nwobike Godwin arrived unconscious and on examination he was pale, covered in blood and unresponsive.

The injuries was contained in a medical report from Budo hospital, Ajah. Which showed that he was stabbed over eight times in multiple places some extending as much as 8cm -12 cm long and deep.

He said, in the matter with Charge number A/ 270/2018, the Commissioner of Police vs Chioma Iwu was filed before a Yaba Magistrate Court presided by Magistrate P.A Ojo and the recommendation of the Legal advice which tallied with the charge of the police never took account of the medical report from Budo Hospital suggestive of fears that the DPP and the Police may have been compromised.

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Source: Independent



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