A housewife and daughter, who allegedly stripped and beat up a woman in Itire, were on Friday docked in a Surulere Chief Magistrate Court in Lagos for allegedly stripping and beating up a woman.
Omowunmi Adejare; 58 and her 15-year-old daughter whose addresses were not given are charged with conspiracy, assault and breach of public peace.
The Prosecution Counsel, Insp Courage Ekhueorohan, told the court that the defendants allegedly committed the offence on Nov. 13, along Kabiesi St., Itire, Surulere, Lagos.
Ekhueorohan alleged that the mother and daughter attacked Mrs Mariam Rasaq.
The police said the defendants stripped and beaten up the complainant over a matter the police had resolved at the station.
He explained that the mother and daughter by their conduct caused a breach of peace by creating a scene on the street, which caused fear to the inhabitants.
He said the offence contravened the provisions of Sections 168 (1) (d), 172, and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015 (Revised).
They, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The Magistrate, Mrs M. I. Dan-Oni, admitted the duo to bail in the sum of N50, 000 each, with one responsible surety each in like sum.
She adjourned the matter until Dec. 9 for substantive trial.
A Federal High Court in Ibadan on Friday sentenced two unemployed men, Kazeem Akeem 24 and Shola Abidoye, 29 to two years imprisonment for trafficking 21.2kg of marijuana.
In two separate judgments, Justice Uche Agomoh held that she convicted and sentenced Akeem and Abidoye based on the evidence tendered by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency against them.
Agomoh said that she took note of the convicts’ plea for mercy being first-time offenders in her judgment.
She, however, warned the convicts to deceased from any form of crime in the future because they were now ex-convicts.
The judge, therefore, sentenced each of the convicts to one-year imprisonment starting from the date they were each first arrested.
Agomoh ordered the NDLEA to destroy the weed exhibit found in possession of the duo.
Earlier, counsel to the NDLEA, Oyo State, Ms Rachael Ige told the court that the convicts were separately arraigned on a-count charge bordering on unlawful trafficking of Indian Hemp.
Ige submitted that Akeem and Abidoye were arrested by the NDLEA operatives on Jan. 24 and April 5 respectively along the Ogbomoso-Oyo Expressway and Oje area of Ibadan.
According to the prosecutor, each of the convicts concealed the illicit drug weighing 16.2kg and five kg in black sacks.
Ige stated that the offence contravened Section 11 (C ) of the NDLEA Act Cap. N30 Law of the Federation 2004.
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