A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Akure, Ondo state capital, has ordered the demand of a middle-aged man, Sunday Emmanuel, to Segede Correctional facility for allegedly macheted his wife, Linda to death.
The accused was also alleged to have macheted his three-year-old son on the head, with the intent to kill him.
The Magistrate, Olateju Odenusi-Fadeyi, however, did not take the plea of the defendant and ordered his remand at the Correctional facility in Ondo town, pending advice from the Department of Public Prosecutions, DPP, in the Ondo State Ministry of Justice.
The Magistrate directed that the case file should be forwarded to the Department of Public Prosecutions, DPP, for advice.
Emmanuel was arraigned on two counts charge bordering on murder and attempted murder.
The Police prosecutor, Inspector Josephine Awanna, told the Court that the defendant committed the offence on October 7, at Ogbeni Camp Ofosu in the Idanre Local Government area of Ondo State.