Drama as lawyer disrupts court proceeding in Ebonyi

BLUEPRINT

A prominent lawyer in Ebonyi state,Sunday Ununu , Friday afternoon disrupted the proceeding in Margistrate Court 1 in the high court premises of the state where he was arraigned for alleged murder case.

Ununu who stage a melodrama in Ebonyi State high court premises, Abakaliki, was said to have walked out of the dock claiming that the charges against him was not properly entered.

Ununu, the Principal of Bigbird chambers, a popular legal firm in Abakaliki has been in police custody in the state headquarters, for about two weeks now after firing a bullets from a pistol in his possession that hit a 36 year-old orphan, Nnamdi Nwite when Izzi Unuphu land power of Attorney was celebrating their election for the new executives of the group.

After his arrest, three attempts were made to arraign Ununu this week in the Magistrate court 1 presided by Ojemba Isu Oko but all failed.

In the last attempt which took place on Friday afternoon 6th September, 2024, Ununu walked out of the dock protesting that the charges against him were not properly entered.

His acting that lasted about two hours, disrupted court proceedings in other magistrate courts within the Magistrate court 1 where he was arraigned.

After which he was taken out of the court in a branded black police operational vehicle to the police headquarters by armed policemen who brought him to the court while the Magistrate court one couldn’t sit on the matter.

Blueprint gathering that Ununu granted interview with some journalists after walking out of the dock but that the policemen came to the two journalists; Wilson Okereke of The Sun and Enyinnaya Omoke of the New Nigeria, ceased their phones and deleted the interview as recorded in the phones.

Meanwhile, a right group, Civil Liberty Organization(CLO) has petitioned Inspector General of Police Kayode Egbetokun seeking transfer of the case file to force headquarters, Abuja.

CLO in a statement signed by Kindness Jonah of Enugu unit of the organization, alleged that some disgruntled members of the extended family of the deceased were chimerically insinuating clandestine settlement with some members of the state police command who are in the known of the notorious incident, and are now trying circumventing justice by liaising for a quantifiable settlement without due process.