The defence counsel to the embattled Imo radio broadcaster, Chinonso Uba, popularly called Nonsokwa, has raised an alarm alleging that some unknown callers have been calling, threatening to kill him if he refused to discontinue with the case.
The counsel, C.K. Mgbekeonye disclosed this in a petition addressed to the Imo State Commissioner of Police and the Inspector General of police informing that his life is in danger following his legal involvement in the matter.
The lawyer, in a petition written through C.K. Mgbekeonye and Shekinah Chambers stated that since representing the broadcaster on October 23 ,2024 at a Magistrate Court sitting in Owerri over charges of conspiracy, treason, arson against him by the state police command that he has been receiving calls from strange people.
Mgbekeonye hinted that after appearing for the defendant he started receiving calls from strange people with hidden phone numbers warning him not to continue with the case or have himself to blame.
He further stated in the petition that the unknown callers, as if they are not done with the threat, accosted him while returning from office along Toronto-MCC Road Owerri on Saturday October 26 with a black Toyota Hilux tinted glass, that on sensing possible danger he veered into the Toronto Police Divisional Headquarters for safety.
“The assailants, having discovered their failure to have me eliminated, brazenly called me again with still unknown number and threatened me to withdraw my legal representation for Uba.
“I’m a legal practitioner discharging my professional duties within the bound of the law and as such, should not be subjected to any form of inhuman treatment or threat to life in the course of discharging my professional duty,” Mgbekeonye stated.
Uba’s lawyer narrated that his life and that of his fellow colleagues in the chamber are in danger following what he has observed within a couple of days now.
“Sir, in consideration of these foregoing facts as elucidated upon,we hereby request for your urgent intervention into this complaint before the assailants would succeed in carrying out their threat, “he appealed.
Nonsokwa’s lawyer Mgbekeonye writes Imo CP ,IG alleges threat to life
