07/04/2022
FROM THE COURTROOM THIS AFTERNOON
Uduak Frank Akpan opens defense, denies ever knowing Iniubong Umoren, University of Uyo graduate who he allegedly r***d and murdered in his residence in Uruan while on a job hunt, 29th April 2021.
"My Lord, I do not know Miss Iniubong Umoren. I only came to know that name when I was served with the proceedings of this trial at the Prison. For the second charge of r**e, my Lord, I do not know anything about r**e. I have never r***d anybody. I pleaded guilty because I had fever on that day and my IPO's influence in the Court.
On where he spent the night of the incident, "My Lord, I spent the night in the house of my relative, Agnes Timothy Inyang at Osongama Estate, Uyo.
-Uduak Frank Akpan told the Court in a witness box, today 6th April, 2022.
© Harrison Essien
