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...For a better society... Monday, July 26 2004 Vol 17 No.30 News Editorial Opinion Labour Politics Sports Features Columnists Business Money/Market Energy Alaba Market Rep docked for arson EMMA OGU, Owerri HEARING last Friday commenced and continues today at Owerri High Court, Imo State on a case of arson preferred against Hon. Uche Onyeagocha, a member of the House of Representatives for Owerri. Onyeagocha was elected on the platform of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). The state government through the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice had dragged Onyeogocha and some of his kinsmen to court alleging that they burnt down a hospital complex belonging to Dr. Samuel Echefu on January 2, last year. The said hospital complex is located at Obinze near Owerri, Onyeagocha’s country home. But the lawmaker denied the charge. The charge sheet, number HOW/20C/2004, dated June 15, this year and signed by the state counsel, Mrs. I.I. Amadi, read: "Uche Onyeagocha, Speedwell Nwaneri and Chief Godwin Amaechi and others now at large on the January 2, 2003, at Obinze, Owerri West in Owerri judicial division, did wilfully and unlawfully set fire to a building (hospital complex) property of one Dr. Samuel Echefu." According to the charge, the alleged conspiracy on the said offence occurred among the accused on December 26 and 27, 2002, at Obinze. At the Owerri High Court II, headed by Justice N. Adigwe, on Friday, the investigating police officer (IPO) a sergeant, read the first statement of Hon. Onyeagocha in which the lawmaker completely denied destroying Dr. Echefu’s property. The lawmaker who was president of Obinze Central Union when the alleged offence was committed, said that the said hospital complex was rather a mortuary complex being sited in a residential area, and which was opposed by the people and the Eze’s cabinet. He said the Eze’s cabinet had ruled that the mortuary complex should not be located in the area as it was residential and the community stood by the directive. Onyeagocha also said in the statement that he told the medical doctor at the early stage of construction of the building that the community will stand by the ruling of the Eze’s cabinet on the matter, emphasizing that he did not, as claimed at any time led his people to also steal the property of the doctor located in the area. The IPO narrated how he led a team to inspect the "scene of the crime," together with a police photographer who took shots of the destroyed building. The case was adjourned till today. � 2004 @ Champion Newspapers Limited (All Right Reserved). Powered By dnetsystems.net dnet�

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