The Anambra State High Court, Aguata Judicial Division, has convicted the Vigilante Commander of Awgbu, Orumba North Local Government, Ifeanyi Enemuo, for the brutal murder of Chukwujekwu Okonkwo.

Hon. Justice Fidel Aniukwu sentenced Enemuo to death by hanging in a case prosecuted by the state with the charge No. AG/14c/2024.

The case of the prosecution, led by Assistant Director Public Prosecutions, P. N. Ofoma Esq., was that on December 28, 2023, during the community’s Christmas celebration in Ogbu Center at Awgbu, Enemuo and his men had arrested a suspect for disturbing the peace and were manhandling and torturing the suspect when Chukwujekwu Okonkwo and other bystanders intervened requesting that they desist from the torture of their suspect.

Enemuo threatened to deal with Chukwujekwu Okonkwo. In reply, Chukwujekwu said Enemuo could do him nothing. Enemuo then shot him with a pump-action gun in the chest, killing him instantly.

P. N. Ofoma argued that Enemuo’s actions were premeditated, and the ingredients of the offence of murder were clearly established. Despite Enemuo’s claim of accidental discharge, the court found him guilty, and Justice Aniukwu delivered a scathing judgment, emphasising that the prosecution had proven its case beyond reasonable doubt. (Nigerian Tribune)