A suspect who couldn't believe his ears after he was ordered to be remanded in jail stunned people when he passed out.
File photo: A court
It was pure melodrama at the Warri South Magistrate Court on Thursday when one Smart Etiemor, a suspect, suddenly collapsed right there.
The suspect collapsed over the court’s order to remand him in prisons custody.
The Nation reports that Etiemor had allegedly collaborated with another suspect, Robinson Dagbolo, to write a petition against a clergyman, Bishop Sunny Jero, accusing him of, among other incriminating allegations, sponsoring the notorious Niger Delta Avengers (NDA).
However, the Chief Magistrate considering their matter, C.I Moeteke, who said his court lacked the jurisdiction to try the accused persons, ordered that they should be remanded at the Okere Prisons, Warri, until August 18, 2016.
The middle-aged suspects were arraigned on a one-count charge of false accusation, an offence punishable under Section 125 of the Criminal Code Cap c21 of Delta.
Earlier, the prosecution counsel, ASP Sunny Irabor told the court that the suspects allegedly petitioned the complainant on July 14, 2016 over human trafficking, gun running and sponsoring the Niger Delta Avengers.
He said that after obtaining a search warrant, the police combed the church and private residence of the Bishop in Warri alongside the suspects adding that nothing incriminating was found.
At the rising of the court, Jero told newsmen outside the court premises that he and the suspects hailed from Ogboinbri community in Egbema clan in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta.
”They wrote a petition against me and police come to search my church and house in the present of the suspects and nothing was incriminating was found, then I was granted bail.
”I have to write a petition against them through my lawyer for arresting me illegally, that is why they were arraigned today,” Jero said.