{"id":223604,"date":"2026-02-12T12:13:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-edo-police-charge-doctor-others-with-murder-kidnapping-defendant-alleges-unfair-prosecution\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T12:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:13:16","slug":"nigeria-edo-police-charge-doctor-others-with-murder-kidnapping-defendant-alleges-unfair-prosecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-edo-police-charge-doctor-others-with-murder-kidnapping-defendant-alleges-unfair-prosecution\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Edo Police Charge Doctor, Others With Murder, Kidnapping, Defendant Alleges Unfair Prosecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The medical doctor, who was arrested on 26 January, said he only joined a peaceful protest on 10 January while jogging near the Market Square.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The Edo State Police Command has charged Nwoke Onyebuchi, a 52-year-old medical doctor and senior lecturer at Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, alongside four others, with murder, armed robbery, and kidnapping following a protest against rising abductions in the university town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">PREMIUM TIMES obtained on Sunday copies of the charges and court filings in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602120211.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The medical doctor, who was arrested on 26 January, said he only joined a peaceful protest on 10 January while jogging near the Market Square. The Edo State Police Command has charged Nwoke Onyebuchi, a 52-year-old medical doctor and senior lecturer at Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, alongside four others, with murder, armed robbery, and kidnapping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":223605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,20138,5211,33023,19813,12658,1457,304,257,4687,393,662,4545,254,15329],"class_list":["post-223604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleges","tag-charge","tag-defendant","tag-doctor","tag-edo","tag-kidnapping","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-police","tag-prosecution","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unfair"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}