The Acting Chief Judge of Imo State, Justice Ijeoma Oguguo, has relocated the Etiti High Court in Ihite-Uboma council area to Owerri High Court premises, citing the spate of insecurity in the area.
The Chief Judge, who gave the order in a memo signed on her behalf by the Chief Registrar, C. N. Okereke, a copy of which was made available to newsmen in Owerri, said that the lives of lawyers and litigants were no longer safe.
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It was gathered that the decision followed the burning of the Ihitte Uboma police stations by some angry youths protesting the killing of two siblings by a police officer.
The memo said, “The movement is temporary and was as a result of the fire incident and safety of judicial workers”.
In the last month, no fewer than four police stations have been attacked by hoodlums in the state.
In the latest attack on the Umuelemai police station in Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of the state, a police inspector was killed and another woman police constable abducted.
The abductors are yet to make contacts about her whereabouts more than four days after the incident.
