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  • Man arraigned for alleged ‘assault’

    A man, Oluwaseyi Dada, who allegedly battered a driver, Mr.  Saliu Tunde Kareem, was yesterday brought before an Aramoko-Ekiti Magistrates’ Court in Aramoko-Ekiti, Ekiti State.

    Dada, 37, was arraigned by the police on a two-count charge of assault and damage before Magistrate Abayomi Adeosun.

    Prosecutor Chidi Christian said the defendant committed the offences on December 19 at Palace Road, Aramoko-Ekiti .

    He alleged that the defendant mercilessly beat up Mr. Kareem, a driver with DAMOD Water, by dragging him off the steering of a Toyota Dyna Cabstar while on motion, causing bruises on his body.

    The court heard that the defendant damaged the vehicle valued at N3 million.

    It was loaded with juice and sachet water belonging to Mrs. Akin Ibimilua Ronke.

    Christian said: “The offences contravene sections 351 and 451 of the Criminal Law of Ekiti State of Nigeria, 2010.

    The defendant pleaded not guilty.

    Magistrate Adeosun, who granted him N100,000 bail with one surety in the like sum, said the surety must be resident within the magisterial district.

    The case continues on January 21.

  • Man held for alleged assault

    Man held for alleged assault

    An Ikorodu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos yesterday granted a N100,000 bail to Akala Laidi after pleading innocence to assault and inflicting malicious injury on one Adebowale Adebayo.

    Magistrate A. Oshodi-Makanju, also ordered Laidi, 36, to provide one responsible surety as part of his bail conditions.

    “The surety must be gainfully employed and his or her address must be verified by the prosecutor,’’ Oshodi-Makanju said.

    The accused said he was being framed-up.

    Eralier, the prosecutor, Corporal Kemi Adeniran said the accused committed the offence on April 29 around11.15 a.m at Agbowa Ikosi, within the Ikorodu Magisterial Division.

    The prosecutor said the accused committed the offence with others still at large.

    “Laidi and his gang attacked one Adebowale Adebayo with a cutlass and caused him bodily harm.

    “The assault, occasioning harm, was a planned attack and the result was that Adebayo’s left hand was cut deeply and he is receiving treatment for the assault,’’ she said.

    The court adjourned the case till June 23.

  • Police arraigns man for alleged assault

    Police arraigns man for alleged assault

    A 30-year old man, Adeoye Amore has been arraigned at an Ikeja Chief Magistrate court for alleged assault.

    He is facing  a four-count charge of assault, willful damage of property and conspiracy.

    The prosecutor, Inspector Chinedu Nwadioke told the court that the defendant with others now at large came together  to commit felony to wit “serious assault and willful damage to property and thereby committed an offence against the law.

    He said the offence was committed on February 4, 2015 at Ojota, along Ikorodu Road, Lagos.

    Inspector Nwadioke alleged that the defendant and others unlawfully assaulted one Inspector Omoh Idehai attached to Lagos State Task Force, Alausa by using stick to inflict injury on his right hand and consequently caused him fracture on the wrist.

    The defendant was also alleged to have hit an iron rod on the crash helmet which Inspector Idehai was wearing and caused damage to the helmet said to be the property of the Nigeria Police Force.

    He was further alleged to have assaulted Sergeant Aboiralor Christopher also attached to the Task Force at Alausa by using stick on his right hand as a result of which his  victim sustained injury on the hand.

    The prosecutor said the offences committed are contrary to and punishable under Section 1(2)(a) and (b) of the Robbery and Firearms (Special Provisions) Act, Cap. 398, Vol. XXII, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990 as amended and Section 258(1) of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State of Nigeria 2011.

    The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charges.

    Chief Magistrate A. O. Akinde granted him bail in the sum of N200,000 and two sureties in the like sum.

    The sureties must have evidence of tax payments within the last three years and be gainfully employed.

     

  • Alleged assault: Commissioner sues police for N1 billion

    Ekiti State Commissioner for Integration and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Funminiyi Afuye, has instituted a civil rights suit against the Commissioner of Police Felix Uyanna and the Mobile Police Commander, Gabriel Selenkere.

    Afuye, who filed the suit yesterday, is asking the court to grant him damages in the sum of N1 billion for physical assault by Selenkere and unlawful detention by the police.

    The suit, which was filed at the Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, was brought pursuant to Order 11 Rules 123 and 5 of the Fundamental Rights {Enforcement] Rules 2009 and sections 6, 34, 41 and 46 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999.

    Afuye, a lawyer, was one of the victims of the June 8 assault on Ekiti people and Governor Kayode Fayemi by mobile policemen led by Bayelsa-born Selenkere.

    Reacting to the suit, the Attorney-General of Ekiti State, Olawale Fapohunda, said the Directorate of Citizens in the Ministry of Justice is interested in the suit.

    He said that the state government was committed to the protection of the rights of all those living in Ekiti State.

    Fapohunda added that all cases of alleged police brutality and extra-judicial actions would be investigated with a view to ensuring the prosecution and dismissal from the force of erring police officers.

    An Ekiti group, the e-Eleven, yesterday condemned the continued detention of Afuye and other people arrested by the police last Sunday, following a rally by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital.

    Chairman of the group, Femi Ajiniran, in a statement yesterday, said its members considered the arrest, transfer and detention of Afuye and others a slap on the face of Ekiti people.”

    It called on the Inspector-General of Police Mohammed Abubakar to immediately order the release of those arrested “for exercising their democratic rights.”

    The statement reads: “The attack with impunity on the Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi is an intolerable insolence and affront against Ekiti as an entity while the unprovoked police assault on members of his party is another attack on democracy by one of the institutions that is expected to protect it. Most regrettable is the loss of an innocent life in the process and we commiserate with the family.

    “We hereby call on the Inspector General of Police to effect the immediate release of all those arrested in order to calm frail nerves and ensure normalcy begin to return to Ekiti State. With the election so close at hand, we expect that the security agencies will not do anything that will further aggravate the already tensed situation in the state.”

    The group called for immediate redeployment and discharge of OC Mopol George Selenkere from the Nigeria Police “for his singular audacity and affront on democracy.

    “Interestingly we note he is related to the President and therefore was ostensibly carrying out a presidential mission with unusual zeal and silly overzealousness. If the Police Force is to truly live up to its responsibility, it must be without the likes of George Selenkere.”