Jumia Delivery Agent’s Murder Suspects Know Fate, Jan 15

A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has fixed 15 January, 2021, for judgement on the murder case of Jumia delivery agent, Chukwuma Eleje.
The Presiding Judge Justice Chigozie Igwe, reserved judgement after listening to Counsels submissions of their final written addresses.
In his submission Bonaventure Ugwu Counsel representing 1st Defendant Sodienye Mbatumueke, urged the court to discharge and acquit his client as prosecution did not prove their case beyond reasonable doubt.
Correspondent Ayo Odungweru reports that Lucky Agor Counsel to 2nd Defendant Excel Naabee also submitted that the court should discharge and acquit his client as prosecution failed to prove that Naabee was accomplice in the murder of late Chukwuma Eleje.
Also, the Prosecution Counsel urged the court to prosecute the 1st and 2nd Defendants as the forty-three exhibits and ten witnesses presented before the court is very cogent, nothing further that the confessional statement of the 1st accused proved that he tricked the deceased to come in the compound so he can kill him and collect his valuables.
Recall that Chukwuma Eleje was murdered in March 2017, Ada-George area of Port Harcourt, when he went to deliver items ordered online, by the 1st suspect Sodienye Mbatumueke and his accomplice Excel Naabee, his body was later recovered inside a septic tank.