A Federal High Court in Abuja, has fixed Friday, April 29, for re-arraignment of Precious Chikwendu, on allegation of attempted murder of her former husband, a former aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, and children.
Chikwendu, ex- beauty queen alongside others, will be re-arraigned before Justice Inyang Ekwo on a 14-count charge.
Others are Emmanuel Anakan (first defendant), Prisca Chikwendu (third defendant) and Osakwe Azubuike (fourth defendant), while others are said to be at large.
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The court stated that the defendants were earlier arraigned before the court on February 14 on 13 counts.
The matter was adjourned by Justice Ekwo shortly after the police prosecutor, John Ijagbemi, applied for the amended charge to be read to the defendants for them to take their plea.
However, the judge said that the re-arraignment would not go on yesterday and adjourned till April 29 for the defendants to take their plea.
Fani-Kayode, the former Minister of Aviation, was the nominal complainant in the matter. But in an amended charge marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/01/2022 and filed by John Ijagbemi on behalf of Commissioner of Police, FCT Command on April 22, the ex-wife was said to have committed attempted culpable homicide on November 24, 2018.
She was alleged to have threatened to kill Fani-Kayode, the children and other occupants of the house with two kitchen knives at Asokoro within the court jurisdiction.
The offence is said to be punishable under Section 229 of the Penal Code Law. She was also accused of making false allegations on November 24, 2018, with the intent to deceive members of the public and make them believe that the injuries in the pictures were inflicted on her by her ex-husband.
Besides, Chikwendu was alleged to have “criminally uploaded doctored/photo-shopped pictures” of her biological child, Liam Femi Fani-Kayode, who was four years old, to deceive members of the public that the child sustained an injury on his forehead.
The offence as gathered is punishable under Section 24 (1) (b) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention Etc) Act 2015.
The defendants were further alleged to have committed offences bordering on cybercrime, intimidation to kill the former minister, among others
They were also alleged to have criminally used the internet to send abusive messages with the intent to bully, defame and harass her ex-husband.
They were alleged to have fabricated false evidence by deposing to a series of affidavits that Chief Fani-Kayode physically and sexually assaulted members of his domestic staff in inhuman conduct by causing same to be electronically published in a national daily.
