Court remands Rivers monarch for cybercrime
A Federal Excessive Court sitting in Port Harcourt has remanded His Royal Highness, Eze Cyprian Amadi-Worenwu, the Eze Risi Ohia-Emeri Abali of Rebisi, to the Port Harcourt Correctional Facility on a trace related to cybercrime.
The fee alleges that on March 28, 2023, Eze Amadi-Worenwu transmitted a message to the phone number of 1 Sunday Reward-Chinenem, threatening and harassing retired Justice Adolphus Enebeli, causing the pick to terror for his life.
The fee moreover tiny print how the accused threatened that he knew the effect Justice Enebeli’s son labored and that the retired pick would not are living to revel in his retirement.
Eze Amadi-Worenwu allegedly threatened to kill the retired justice for not turning in judgement in his favour in a chieftaincy suit in opposition to Christopher Wonodi and others on March 20, 2023.
This offence is opposite to Share 24 (1) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, and loads others.) Act of 2015.
DAILY POST experiences that Eze Amadi-Worenwu pleaded not guilty to the trace.
The trial pick, Justice Emmanuel Obele, refused an oral bail application by defence counsel A.S. Amadi, which changed into once opposed by prosecution counsel ASP Welter Ogwuikpile.
Justice Obele adjourned the case unless July 29, 2024, for bail consideration and ordered that the accused be remanded within the Port Harcourt Correctional Facility unless the next adjourned date.
Detectives from the Rivers Verbalize Legal Investigation Department, CID, arrested and detained Eze Amadi-Worenwu after he had beforehand avoided police invitations relating to his alleged threats in opposition to Enebeli and his family.
