{"id":22135,"date":"2024-03-15T10:03:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T10:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/court-remands-man-for-allegedly-threatening-to-kill-his-mother\/"},"modified":"2024-03-15T10:03:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T10:03:08","slug":"court-remands-man-for-allegedly-threatening-to-kill-his-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/court-remands-man-for-allegedly-threatening-to-kill-his-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Court remands man for allegedly threatening to kill his mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A Chief Magistrates\u2019 Court in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State capital, on Friday ordered that a 35-year-old man, Monday Ikeagwu, be remanded in a correctional centre for allegedly threatening to kill his mother.<\/p>\n<p>The police charged Ikeagwu with threat to life and stealing N625,000 belonging to his mother, Jacinta.<br \/>\nThe Magistrate, Lillian Ogodo, did not take Ikeagwu\u2019s plea for want in jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>Ogodo said the case file and all exhibits should be forwarded to the Department of Public Prosecution for legal advice.<\/p>\n<p>She adjourned the matter to March 29.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Insp Chinagorom Eze, told the court that Ikeagwu committed the offence of February 7 at Obodoma Ekka community, Ezza North Local Government Area of Ebonyi.<\/p>\n<p>Eze said Ikeagwu threatened to kill his mother with a gun.<\/p>\n<p>He said the accused also stole N625,000 cash belonging to his mother.<\/p>\n<p>He said Ikeagwu committed an offence punishable under Section 390 (9) of the Criminal Code Cap 33, Vol. 1 Laws of Ebonyi State of Nigeria 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The Defence Counsel, Solomon Eguji, prayed the court to grant his client bail.<\/p>\n<p>Eze, however, objected to the bail application.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf bail is granted, he may disappear. I pray the court to discountenance the bail application, \u201d he advised.<\/p>\n<p>Court remands man for allegedly threatening to kill his mother<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chief Magistrates\u2019 Court in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State capital, on Friday ordered that a 35-year-old man, Monday Ikeagwu, be remanded&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[614,384,15],"tags":[135,387,180],"class_list":["post-22135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-court","category-metro","category-news","tag-court","tag-metro","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}