{"id":2989,"date":"2024-10-29T10:05:28","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T10:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2024-10-29T10:05:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T10:05:28","slug":"murder-of-enugu-musician-killer-cop-dismissed-remanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2024\/10\/29\/murder-of-enugu-musician-killer-cop-dismissed-remanded\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder of Enugu musician: Killer cop dismissed, remanded"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"grid-content-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"content-box-wrapper content-area\">\n<div class=\"entry-content-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"entry-content-inner-wrapper\">\n<p>The Enugu State Police Command said it has concluded the orderly room trial of Police Inspector Ozonwanji Joseph, as the officer was implicated in the murder of Ogene musician, Chikezie Nwamba.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement by command spokesman, Daniel Ndukwe, Inspector Ozonwanji was found culpable and received the maximum penalty of dismissal, followed by court prosecution in line with the Police Act and Regulations 2020.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dx-primis-video-container\">\n<div class=\"cleanslate360pv\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I spent 24 years in prison for refusing to join in murder, money ritual plot \u2014 Ismaila Lasisi<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cAccordingly, the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 13 (covering Anambra and Enugu States\u2019 Commands), approved the orderly trial recommendations to dismiss and prosecute the Inspector in court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHence, he has been dismissed from the Nigeria Police Force and was today, October 28, 2024, arraigned at the Enugu East Magistrate Court for the offence of murder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chief Magistrate ordered the remand of the former officer in the Enugu prison and the transmission of the case file to the Attorney General of Enugu State for further judicial action.<br \/>\n\u201cThe trial was adjourned to November 12, 2024,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-box-wrapper sidebar-area primary-sidebar\">\n<aside id=\"block-37\" class=\"widget widget_block\">\n<section class=\"section section-fullwidth alignfull wp-block-dx-section\">\n<div class=\"row row-fullwidth __no-gap\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-content-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"content-box-wrapper content-area below-content-sidebar\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Enugu State Police Command said it has concluded the orderly room trial of Police Inspector Ozonwanji Joseph, as the officer was implicated in the murder of Ogene musician, Chikezie Nwamba. In a statement&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2991,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions\/2991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}