Family members of a 13-year-old schoolgirl, Ochanya Ogbanje, who allegedly died from rape-related complications, watched with anguish as a video recording of one of her last moments speaking of her ordeals was played at the Benue State High Court in Makurdi on Wednesday.
Ochanya was admitted at the Federal Medical Centre in Makurdi for two months before she died in October. The prosecution told the judge, Augustine Ityonyiman, that the deceased teenager was interviewed on court premises in August 2018 when Mr Ogbuja was first arraigned at an Upper Area Court in Makurin in connection with the rape allegation.
“We called a total of eight witnesses comprising medical experts, police officers, family members and we tendered medical reports and statements of witnesses before closing our case today,” the DPP told journalists shortly after Wednesday’s proceedings in Makurdi. Mr Ogbuja was accused alongside his son, Victor, who has been missing since the incident became public in 2018.
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