A 69-year-old landlady, Rose Ibe, and her son, Christopher, 46, on Friday appeared in an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly evicting a tenant without a court warrant.
The police charged the defendants with damage and breach of peace but they pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The prosecution counsel, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Benson Emuerhi, told the court that the defendants committed the offence on August 3 at 6 p.m. at No. 4, Ololade Street, New Oko-oba, Agege, Lagos.
Emuerhi said that the defendants forcefully evicted the complainant, Sunday Boyede and damaged the locks of the entrance door of his apartment.
He said that the offence contravened the provisions of sections 339 and 168 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
Chief Magistrate Abiodun Adegbaye admitted the defendants to bail in the sum of N200, 000 each with two sureties each in like sum.
Adegbaye adjourned the case until September 30 for mention.
Similarly, an Iyaganku Magistrates’ court sitting in Ibadan on Thursday ordered one Azeez Salau, 26, to be remanded at the Abolongo correctional facility for allegedly raping a deaf 20-year-old.
Salau, 26, a bricklayer and father of one, of Ile Tuntun area, Academy, Ibadan, was arraigned on a one-count charge of rape.
The Magistrate, Mrs Mercy Amole–Ajimoti, who did not take the defendant’s plea, due to lack of jurisdiction, ordered his remand at Abolongo correctional facility in Oyo town.
Amole-Ajimoti ordered the remand pending the receipt of advice from the Oyo state Directorate of Public Prosecution.
She, however, adjourned the matter till November 30, for mention.
Police prosecutor, Sergeant Phillip Amusan, had earlier told the court that Salau, sometime in June, at Atagba area, Boluwaji, Ibadan, allegedly had unlawful carnal knowledge of one Kemi Omotola, 20, a deaf, without her
consent.
“The defendant allegedly jumped through the fence into the compound of the victim, to perpetrate the act when the family she worked for as housemaid had left home for work, “he said.
He said the offence was contrary to Section 357 and punishable under Section 358 of the Oyo State Criminal Code 2000.
(NAN)
