BY TIMOTHY AGBOR, OSOGBO
A 27-year-old housewife, Kike Adetunji, has been arraigned before an Osogbo Magistrate’s Court in Osun State by the Police for allegedly assaulting and injuring her landlord, Mukaila Kazeem.
The Police prosecutor, Inspector Olayiwola Rasaq, told the court that the defendant committed the offence around 6:30am at Ago-Ayo area of Osogbo on May 27.
He explained that a fight had ensued between Kike and Kazeem when the latter asked her to reduce the volume on the radio that she was playing in her apartment.
The landlord was said to have complained that the sound of the music was too loud and disturbing others.
It was learnt that the enraged woman assaulted and stoned the complainant during an argument that broke out between the two of them.
According to the Police prosecutor, while conducting herself in a manner that caused a breach of peace in the neighborhood, the woman inflicted a head injury on her landlord.
The charge sheet obtained by The Point reads in part, “That Kike Adetunji, on the 27th May, 2021, at about 6:30am at Ago-Ayo area, Osogbo, in the Osogbo Magisterial District, did unlawfully assault Mukaila Kazeem with stone and inflict injury on the right side of his head.”
Rasaq said that the defendant committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Sections 355 and 249 of the Criminal Code, Cap 34, Vol. II, Laws of Osun State of Nigeria, 2002.
However, Kike pleaded not guilty to the two counts.
Her counsel, Mr Kehinde Adepoju, applied for her bail in most liberal terms.
The Magistrate, A. A. Adeyeba, granted the accused person bail in the sum of N200,000 with one surety in the like amount. The surety, he said, should be a blood relation to the defendant and must furnish the court with evidence of three years tax payment.
The case was adjourned to July 8 for mention.
