A 22-year-old trader, Kuburat Sanni, has been arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court in Lagos for allegedly stabbing a woman accused of dating her husband.
Mrs Sanni, who lives at Akindia Street, Agege, Lagos, is being tried for breach of peace, assault and conspiracy.
Prosecuting officer Kehinde Olatunde, said that the accused and others still at large allegedly committed the offences on July 9 at her residence.
He said the accused and the others assaulted one Miss Mariam Bala, 20, by stabbing her with “a broken bottle, scissors and knife.”
Olatunde said Mrs Sanni accused the complainant of having an affair with her husband and that she had had series of abortions for him.
Olatunde said: “The complainant was sent by her mother to deliver a message to her elder sister who lives in the same house with the accused. When she got there, the accused, who claimed that the complainant was having an affair with her husband locked her in a room and called some hoodlums. They tore Miss Bala’s clothes and stabbed her with knives, bottles and scissors all over her body.”
According to the prosecutor, the Miss Bala fainted due to the profuse loss of blood.
“If not for the quick intervention of neighbours who rushed her to the hospital, the complainant would have been dead,” Olatunde said.
He said in the process of assaulting the complainant, her phone, valued at N20,000 and N30,000 cash which was to be deliver to her sister was stolen from her.
The offence, Olatunde said contravened Sections 166, 171 and 410 of the Criminal Laws.
The accused pleaded innocence and was granted N50, 000 bail with one surety in the like sum.
Magistrate Aka Bashorun adjourned the case till September 1.