Incarcerated former media aide and Special Assistant to the out-going Speaker of Imo State House of assembly and political social crusader, citizen, Samuelson Iwuoha, has re-gained his freedom. The embattled critic, who has been held in Owerri central prison for more than 10 months over an alleged suspected murder case, yesterday re-gained back his freedom after nearly ten months of incarceration.
An Owerri High Court sat over by Justice Mrs. Denwigwe yesterday quashed the murder case against Samelson Iwuoha who was arraigned along side with his wife but had remained in prison awaiting trial since June 3, 2014, even after the wife was granted a conditional bail to nurse her new baby.
As media aide to speaker Benjamin Uwajumogu, citizen Samelson Iwuoha had fallen out with the Chief of Staff to the Speaker, Hon. Kodichi Anamekwe when he complained that Kodichi was using his position to enrich himself through fake award of road construction contracts, increase in wage bill of the staff of the office of the Speaker and inclusion of his mother and matriarch of the Anamekwe dynasty in the payroll of the wage bill of the office of the Speaker. He had recalled how journalists covering the state House of Assembly Complex were used at their approval to appropriate a huge chunk of the Assembly’s annual budget only for the money to be split into 3 with Kodichi Anamekwe collecting two parts while the journalists take the other part with thanks.
It was not long after he was suspended from office for these allegations against both the Speaker and his Chief of Staff, Anamekwe that he was arrested over a certain murder of suspected cultists in his Ikenegbu Extension, off MCC/Uratta residence along with the spouse. Since then they have been incarcerated with the High Court judges supposed to adjudicate over the case, either redeployed, retired, suspended from office or sent on compulsory leave whenever the case came up for mention. As God would have it, he breathe the air of freedom at last.
