Nigeria, April 25 -- A high court in Awka, Anambra State, on Friday adjourned the arraignment of a popular native doctor due to ill health.

The native doctor, Johnpaul Ezenagu, popularly known as "Muo Mmili Afuluanya", was arrested on 12 March in Nnewi, a community in Nnewi North Local Government Area of the state.

The operatives of the Agunechemba, a vigilante group in Anambra State, arrested Mr Ezenagu practallegations.

When Mr Ezenagu was brought into the courtroom on Friday, he was not walking properly. His lawyer, Kingsley Awuka, told the court that the defendant was sick.

But the prosecution team, led by the Anambra State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Tobechukwu Nweke, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, suggested tha...