A Lecturer in the University of Port Harcourt has been brutally killed by his own gateman and others who are now been arrested by the Nigerian Police.
Three persons have been remanded in prison by a Chief
Magistrate Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Thursday for murder
of a University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT), lecturer, Dr. Eeba Lebari.
According to reports, The suspects are – the deceased’s gateman,
Christopher Kinanee, Lebari Robert Tambari, and Ibrahim Useni, a
Republic of Benin national.
Useni was the deceased’s housemaid. The suspects were arrested between
December 2015 and early this month. They were arraigned for conspiracy,
kidnapping and murder.
The Chief Magistrate, Andrew Jaja, ordered that the charges be read out
to the accused. He, however, said the court lacks the powers to
entertain the case, being a capital offense punishable with maximum
sentence.
He ordered that the original case file be duplicated and handed over to
the registrar of the court, who will in turn forward same to the office
of the State Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) for advice.
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