Court Remands Man For Burning Maid’s Buttocks
A guardian, Uzoma Egemba, has been remanded at the Owerri Correctional Centre for allegedly scalding the buttocks and body of his 12-year-old maid, Chimkamso Ekeocha, for riding his children’s bicycle.
The jurist, who said that she lacked the power to hear the matter, remanded the accused and adjourned till July 20 to hear the report by the Department of Public Prosecutions.
Though counsel to the accused, K. U Alisigwe, had argued that the magistrate had the constitutional power to entertain the matter, the jurist insisted that she lacked the jurisdiction to entertain the matter.
While Alisigwe pressed on, the magistrate reminded him that she was not recording him.
Counsel to the police, Ogechi who brought out a remand notice, agreed with the magistrate that she lacked the jurisdiction to entertain the matter.
The police arraigned the accused on one count charge which read, “That you Egemba Uzoma, on June 26, 2022, at area L World Bank Housing Estate in the Owerri magisterial district did unlawfully and without justification wound one Chikamso Ekeocha by giving her multiple deep wounds on her back using a very hot frying spoon placed at a burning cooking gas and intentionally placed on her back which caused multiple maim on her back, got her disfigured and does gracious harm on her and thereby committed an offence punishable under section 332(1) of the criminal code cap C38 laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004 as applicable in Imo State.”
