Imprisonment or incarceration provides opportunity for counseling and training to offenders so that they can be reformed/rehabilitated or changed for the better or for a return to normal life.
But to a 40 year old Onyekachi Samuel, of Demsawo street, Yola North Local Government Area, Adamawa state, reverse is the case despite his 13 years behind bars.
Onyekachi, along side others were apprehended, tried, convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison for armed robbery by a Yola high court where he spent 8 years in prison and regained his freedom in 2016.
The ex-convict whose family members thought must have repented, was again arrested for threatening to kill a man in Demsawo after the man met him and warned him to stop smoking indian hemp at his compound.
It was as a result of the threat that the man reported the matter at the police station where the recevidist was re-arrested and arraigned before chief magistrate court II sometimes in 2016.
He pleaded guilty after which he was convicted and sentenced to 3 years in prison. Shortly after his conviction, his father, Samuel Eke, stormed the court and pleaded with the trial judge to add another 2 years to make it 5 years.
Eke, told the court that his son was a serious threat to him, his brothers, sisters and neighbours, and that his continued stay in prison will be safer for them.
NEWS PLATFORM learnt that he was in prison when his mother, Grace Samuel and eldet brother, Sunday Samuel passed on to glory in 2017.
He also spent 5 years in prison and came out in October, 2021. But barely 3 months after he was released from prison custody, Onyekachi, who could not change his attitude, dared his father and other family members.
He met his father, Samuel Eke, a security guard at Alheri Hotel, on the 16th December, 2021, boiling water to bath, and said he does not see the reason why he (Onyekachi) will bath with cold water and his father will bath with hot water.
He there and then took a pestle and pursued his father in an effort to break his head. The father was said to have escaped by whiskers with Onyekachi threatening to kill him whenever he sets his eyes on him.
In order to save his life and that of his family members, Eke went and reported the matter at the Doubeli police station on the 11th January, 2022, as a result of which he was apprehended for third time.
He was arraigned before Hon. Ibrahim Musa Ulenda, of the Upper Area court 4 in Yola on Wednesday last week, by Seargent Kabiru Abubakar, where he pleaded guilty to criminal intimidation contrary to section 382 of state penal code law.
But while speaking to NEWS PLATFORM, Samuel Eke, pleaded with the court to sentence him to life imprisonment, saying that if not, the convict will one day kill him or any of his family members.
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