Nwachukwu will face a 23-count bordering on culpable homicide, verbal, physical abuse and wrongful confinement, wrongful restraint, economic abuse, forced isolation, emotional and psychological abuse, and attempt to commit culpable homicide, among others.
Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, the Director of the Federation’s Public Prosecutions, confirmed this to The PUNCH on Thursday, adding that Nwachukwu will be arraigned before Court 56 of the FCT High Court in Wuse.
The 42-year-old musician died after spending days in a hospital.
Nwachukwu was consequently arrested by the police after colleagues of Osinachi, who was a lead singer at the Dunamis International Headquarters, Abuja, accused him of beating her.
The defendant was charged under Sections 104 and 379 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015.
The case with charge number, CR/199/2022, was filed at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on May 20, 2022, by the Head, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, Department of Public Prosecutions of the Federation, Ministry of Justice, Mrs. Yewande Gbola-Awopetun.
The prosecutor accused the defendant of forcefully ejecting the deceased from the family home, contrary to the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act, 2015, adding that he also attempted culpable homicide by pushing Osinachi out of a moving vehicle.
The Federal Government further alleged that the defendant deprived the deceased of her liberty by restraining her movement and locking her up in the house.
In addition, Nwachukwu was charged with emotional, verbal, and psychological abuse in violation of section 14(1) of the VAP Act, 2015.
The defendant allegedly denied Osinachi access to her money, forcing her to beg and borrow for medication and basic essentials.
Osinachi’s spouse was also accused of separating and isolating her from her family by forbidding the deceased’s mother and siblings from visiting her matrimonial home.
Nwachukwu was also accused of beating the children, recording their cries, and playing the cries repeatedly on his phone.
According to the charges, he intimidated the children and prohibited them from reporting their mother’s domestic abuse to his pastor, Dr. Paul Enenche, or anyone else.
