Ministry of Justice Files Homicide Charges Against Late Osinachi Nwachukwu’s Husband

 

The Federal Ministry of Justice has filed 23 counts charge bordering on culpable homicide under Sections 104 and 379 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Acts 2015 and Section 221 of the Penal Code and the Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act (VAPP) against the husband of late gospel singer, Osinachi Nwachukwu who died in April 2022.

Osinachi’s husband, Peter Nwachukwu is being held for the demise of the singer after it was established that the late music act died from medical complications as a result of physical and mental assault from her spouse.

The charges, dated May 20, 2022, were signed by the Head, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, Department of Public Prosecutions of the Federation, Ministry of Justice, Mrs Yewande Gbola-Awopetun.

The prosecutor accused the defendant of forcefully ejecting his duly wedded wife from the family home and pushing her out of a moving vehicle.

The prosecution further alleged that the defendant deprived the deceased of her personal liberty by restraining her movement and locking her up in the house.

Nwachukwu was equally accused of emotional, verbal and psychological abuse of the ‘Ekwueme’ singer contrary to section 14(1) of the VAPP Act, 2015.

The defendant was said to have denied Osinachi access to her money for medication and household necessities and forced her into begging and borrowing.

The charge further alleged that Osinachi’s husband forcefully isolated and separated her from her family by preventing the deceased’s mother and siblings from visiting her matrimonial home.

Nwachukwu was also accused of cruelly beating the children and recording them as they cried. He was accused of playing such on his phone later.