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An Umuahia Excessive Court docket was thrown into hysteria on account of a disclosure in the middle of cross examination by counsel for the defendant throughout listening to of the case.
Kelechi Eze, counsel for the defendant, Chioma Toplis who’s a Nollywood actress, asserted {that a} PDP chieftain, Chief Uche Akwukwegbu, CEO Bawas Oil, r#ped, impregnated, subjected her to ab#rtion and thereafter buried the f#etus of the being pregnant when she was an adolescent.
Throughout an interview, the mom of Chioma Toplis, Mrs Bessie Orji, 85 years outdated, who is also the mother-in-law of the aforesaid Chief Uche Akwukwuegbu alias Bawas and in addition a witness within the case confirmed the revelations.
The weighty allegation and different sordid revelations made within the courtroom compelled the choose, Justice Ogechi Okeahialam to recuse herself from the trial, prompting the case to be reassigned to a different courtroom for continuation of listening to.
Actress Chioma Toplis is standing trial for felony defamation in a case (SUIT NO: HU/181/2022) following posts created from a social media, which she vehemently denies any data of.
In line with a dependable supply, hassle began after Chief Akwukwegbu, a brother in regulation to the actress, following the social media posts he suspected had been emanating from the actress, initiated a case of felony defamation in opposition to the actress, which noticed police males from Zone 9 Umuahia, Abia State, swooping on, arresting and charging the actress to a Justice of the Peace courtroom in Umuahia, which lacked jurisdiction to entertain the case, resulting in Chioma Toplis being detained in a correctional facility at Umuahia. The detention, extensively reported within the media on the time, prompted uproar amongst her colleagues in Nollywood.
In line with the supply, “Chioma was arrested on Friday 18th of June 2021. After the interview with the previous AIG Okon on Monday twenty first June, the stated Okon held that the case lacked proof however the CSP Johnson continued to detain Chioma Toplis on the occasion of the stated Chief Uche Akwukwuegbu. Chioma Toplis was additionally made to offer landed/home paperwork in Umuahia, Abia State as a part of the requirement for her bail situation. She was ultimately granted administrative bail and the matter was ultimately charged to courtroom but, the prosecution on the directions of Chief Uche Akwukwuegbu refused to launch the stated paperwork again to Chioma Toplis. Chioma’s mom tendered her son’s home doc as safety for Chioma Toplis’ bail she was launched on bail on Thursday, twenty fifth June 2021 making it 6 days at Zone 9 Police cell.
“Feeling that her rights had been trampled upon, Chioma went to report the case in Abuja and Chief Uche Akwukwegbu was arrested and detained. The case was consolidated and moved to Abuja however as quickly as Chioma went to London for therapy, Akwukwegbu transferred the case again to Umuahia with out investigation from the FCID Abuja headed by the late DIG Egbunike. When Chioma returned to Nigeria after her medical journey, she was knowledgeable in Abuja that the case has been moved again to Umuahia. She went to Pressure Headquarters, Abuja to report the matter and the Late DIG Egbunike suggested that the matter the case file needs to be returned again to Abuja.
“Chioma later returned again to her base in Lagos and went to the financial institution to do a transaction, solely to search out out that her enterprise account was frozen and in the middle of making inquiries, she was arrested within the financial institution and brought to Panti. She was detained till she put a name throughout to DIG Dan-mallam who once more knowledgeable Late DIG Egbunike what had occurred. Late DiG despatched a sign to Panti for Chioma’s fast launch and invited all events concerned within the case to seem in his workplace on the seventeenth of December, 2021. “
In line with the supply, the late DIG Ebunike had admonished them, urging them to make peace since they had been all kin, they embraced peace and left. However that was to not be, following the dying of DIG Egbunike.
Going additional, the supply averred: “On the 14th of March, 2022, Chioma was in Asaba filming, and on her manner again from a location with two of her colleagues some unknown males accosted them on the best way in what regarded like a kidnap. Her colleagues instantly reported to the TV and Radio stations and the information went viral that Chioma had been kidnapped. It was later revealed that the boys had been policemen from Zone 9. They seized her telephones, so she couldn’t name anybody, even her lawyer. The next day, the fifteenth, she was moved to Umuahia by the Police Officers from Zone 9 who got here to Asaba. At about 5pm they arraigned her in a Justice of the Peace courtroom in Umuahia along with her telephones nonetheless seized and ordered her remand in correctional middle in Afara, Umuahia. Her lawyer Kelechi Eze filed and secured her bail on the Excessive courtroom Umuahia the place she was granted bail and the case nonetheless ongoing.”
The PDP chieftain, Chief Akukwegbu nonetheless dismissed the allegations. In line with him, the matter is being addressed in courtroom. “She is standing trial for felony defamation as we converse, so I count on the courtroom to do justice to the matter”.
