The Nigerian government has taken legal action against the husband of Osinachi Nwachukwu, a gospel singer who died just this year.
Peter Nwachukwu was charged with murder, which is against section 221 of the Penal Code and is punishable by death.
Sections 104 and 379 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015, were used to bring charges against him.
Mrs. Yewande Gbola-Awopetu, who is the Head of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in the Department of Public Prosecutions of the Federation at the Ministry of Justice, filed the case against Peter Nwachukwu on May 20, 2022.
Osinachi Nwachukwu, a gospel singer, died on April 8 in a hospital in Abuja.
There were rumors that she had died of cancer after she passed away, but her family quickly put an end to the rumors.
In an interview with Vanguard Nigeria, the late singer’s older sister said that Osinachi died because she had a clump of blood in her chest because her husband, Mr. Peter Nwachukwu, had kicked her in that area.
She said that her sister’s husband had hurt her sister many times.
Police looked into the death of the gospel singer, but her husband said he had nothing to do with it.
Mr. Nwachukwu told the police that his wife had been sick since November 2021. He was later caught, and since then he has been helping with the investigation.
The National Hospital did an autopsy to find out what killed the singer. The police were given the report, but the results were not made public.
A month after the hospital finished the autopsy report, Mr. Nwachukwu was charged with murder.
One of the charges says, “That you Peter Nwachukwu, 56, male, on April 8, 2022 at Aco Estate, opposite police station, Lugbe, Abuja, FCT, within the jurisdiction of this honorable court, did commit an offence to with: culpable homicide punishable with death in that you caused the death of Mrs. Osinachi Nwachukwu by your various acts of violence and aggravated assault with the knowledge that her death would probably be the result of
The second count says, “Statement of offence: Willfully putting a person in fear of physical injury contrary to section 4(1) of the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act, 2015 and punishable under the same section of the Act.”
Source: TheBBCghana.Com
