Husband of late, Osinachi, slammed with homicide charges.

 

The civil government, on Thursday, filed 23 counts of assault against Peter Nwachukwu, the partner of late popular gospel songster Osinachi, who died on April 8 after he reportedly abused her. 

 

 The Attorney- General of the Federation charged him under sections 104 and 379 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015. 

The defendant was charged with reproachable homicide, which is punishable by death under Section 221 of the Penal Code. 

 

 Mrs Yewande Gbola- Awopetun, the Head, Sexual and Gender- Grounded Violence, Department of Public Executions of the Federation, Ministry of Justice, filed the case with charge number CR/199/2022 before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on May 20, 2022. 

After spending days in an Abuja sanitarium, the 42- year-old musician died due to the alleged assault and abuse by her hubby. 

 

 Accordingly, Nwachukwu was arrested by the police, after associates of Osinachi, who was a main singer at the Dunamis International Headquarters in Abuja, indicted him of hitting her. 

 Count one reads, “ That you Peter Nwachukwu, 56, male, on the 8th of April, 2022 at Aco Estate, opposite police station, Lugbe, Abuja, FCT, within the governance of this honorable court, did commit an offence to with reproachable homicide punishable with death in that you caused the death of Mrs Osinachi Nwachukwu by your various acts of violence and irritated assault with the knowledge that her death would be the probable consequence of your acts. ” 

 

 Count two, “ Statement of offence Consciously placing 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. ”