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  • Landlady pours hot water on tenant

    A 30-year-old landlady, Oluwatoyin Adeleye, yesterday appeared at an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly pouring hot water mixed with pepper on her tenant.

    The accused, who lives at Aboru, Iyana-Ipaja, Lagos, is facing a one-count charge of inflicting injury. She pleaded not guilty.

    Magistrate B.O. Osunsanmi granted the accused N100, 000 bail with two sureties in the like sum.

    She said the sureties should be employed and show evidence of two years’ tax payment to the Lagos State Government.

    Prosecutor Ezekiel Ayorinde said the accused committed the offence last December 25 at her house.

    He alleged that the accused injured Mrs. Justinah Julius by pouring hot water mixed with pepper on her.

    “The complainant claimed that she removed her shoes before entering her room and that a few seconds later she saw the accused picking the shoes.

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    “She said before she came out of her room, the accused had gone. She went to the accused’s room demanding her shoes, but an argument ensued, which resulted in a fight.

    “The accused ran inside the kitchen, carried the boiling water on fire and emptied it on her body, which resulted in scalding her skin.

    “The complainant was taken to hospital, the case was reported and the accused was arrested,” Ayorinde told the court.

    He said the offence violated Section 246 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

    The case continues on February 13.

     

  • Trader ‘slashes’ landlady with blade

    A 30 -year-old trader, Mariam Amos, was yesterday brought before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly inflicting life threatening injuries on her landlady with a blade.

    According to prosecuting Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Ezekiel Ayorinde, the accused committed the offence on June 12 at Alakuko, a Lagos suburb.

    He said the accused inflicted deep cuts on her landlady, Mrs Tolani Sholanke because she gave her a quit notice.

    Ayorinde said Sholanke gave the accused a quit notice for allegedly quarrelling with other tenants.

    He said Sholanke reported the case and the accused was arrested.

    Amos pleaded not guilty.

    Magistrate B.O Osunsanmi granted the accused N50,000 bail, with two sureties in the like sum.

    She ordered that the sureties must be employed and show evidence of two years tax payment to the Lagos State Government.

    Osunsanmi adjourned till July 18.

  • Man charged with ‘beating up landlady over electricity bill’

    A 30-year-old unemployed man, Isaac Elegbede, who allegedly beat up his 60-year-old landlady, has been arraigned at an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court, Lagos.

    The accused, who lives at 45, Orile Agege Road, Agege, a suburb of Lagos, is facing a two-count charge of causing breach of peace and assault.

    Police prosecutor Rachael Williams said the accused committed the offences on July 17 at his apartment.

    She alleged that the accused assaulted his landlady, Mrs. Jumoke Durashola, during an argument over electricity bills.

    “The accused beat up the 60-year-old woman and she became unconscious.

    “But for the intervention of other tenants, it would have been another story,’’ she said.

    The offences contravened sections 168 and 173 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

    The accused pleaded not guilty.

    The Magistrate, Mrs. L. Y. Balogun, granted the accused a bail of N50, 000 with two sureties in like sum and adjourned the case till August 14 for mention.

  • Landlady held over tenant’s murder

    A landlady simply identified as Alhaja Yusuf has been arrested for the death of her tenant, Charles Enokela, popularly called Pketimi.

    The 67-year-old woman was arrested with her son Akeem Yusuf following Enokela’s death from a head injury.

    The late Enokela, an Okada rider from Benue State, was said to have fallen out with his landlord for allegedly drinking and keeping late nights.

    Alhaja Yusuf, it was learnt, served him a quit notice after his rent lapsed in December last year.

    The late Enokela’s relation, Ikwuoche said the landlord had threatened to kill him if he did not vacate the house.

    He said: “Pketimi told me that he got a house at Igando and needed only next week to stay at that house. He told me that the children of Alhaja Yusuf said he must leave their house alive or die. Look at what this woman did to us.”

    A witness who didn’t want his name mentioned said the late Enokela told him that the landlady’s son, a police officer threatened to deal with him and lock him up in cell, and “could cover up anything that happened.”

    Neighbours and some of his colleagues described the late Enokela as “a friendly man”.

    “Pketimi is a hardworking man and hardly fights people. He can give you anything if he has it. We will miss him very much,” said an Okada rider.

    His body has being deposited at the Mainland General Hospital Morgue.

    The police are investigating the case.

  • Landlady seeks tenant’s ejection

    A middle-age woman, Mrs Ogunbekun, has pleaded with an Ikorodu Magistrate’s Court in Lagos, to eject one of her tenants.

    The plaintiff, who lives on Shagamu Road in Ikorodu, said the tenant, Mrs B. Tina, has been occupying the apartment since her parents’ death.

    She accused her of late rent payment, not partaking in environmental sanitation and accommodating different men in her apartment.

    Mrs Ogunbekun said: “Her siblings have persuaded me to talk to her to return to her matrimonial home but she refused.”

    The landlady said she became scared when one of her man friends, a soldier, hit another man friend’s head on the wall.

    “Through the help of my lawyer, I have given her a one-month quit notice on February 28 but she has refused to leave. I issued another quit notice on May 4, which she also ignored.

    “I want her to vacate my house because I don’t want my female children and daughter in-law to be influenced by her attitude. And, also she should pay her outstanding bills,” she said.

    The defendant denied all the allegations against her.

    Magistrate A. Oshodi-Makanju adjourned the case till August 12 because of  the absence of the defendant’s lawyer.

     

  • Tenant tackles landlady over illegal ejection notice

    A Lagos-based barber, Damilola Adebowale, of  No 23 Major Akinola Street, Aboru, a suburb of Lagos State, has accused her landlady, Mrs S.O Sodimu, of planning to forcibly eject him from the house.

    Adebowale said he was shocked to receive a quit notice from his landlady shortly after he paid  a six month rent.

    It was learnt that Adebowale had communicated his inability to pay one year advance rent to Mrs Sodimu, following which he paid for six months covering up to the  June.

    He said the woman collected the money for him and subsequently issued receipts for the payment.

    He said that he was surprised to receive a warning  from his landlady to vacate his apartment by May 31, 2015.

    “I have been paying one year advance rent since I moved into the house a few years ago. This time around, I explained my inability to pay a one year advance rent and offered to pay six months’ rent and she agreed. She gave me receipts for the payment. My rent was to end by June, but I was shocked to receive a quit notice from her a few days after she collected the money from me. “

    “The quit notice was issued by her lawyer called Bola Owosho and I believed that it was wrong for her to eject me from my apartment before my rent is due.

    A copy of the ejection notice signed by Barr Bola Owosho reads in part: “I M.B.A Owosho hereby as solicitor to your landlord, Mrs S.O Sodimu, do give you notice to quit and deliver up possession of the one room (apartment) with appurtenances situate at the above address which you hold of him (sic) as monthly tenant on or before the 31st day of May 2015.”

    In a telephone conversation with our correspondent, Barr Owosho said:” It is true that I issued the quit notice to Adebowale, but I cannot tell you the reason why his landlady instructed me to do so. The landlady is my client and the rationale behind the quit notice is not meant to be revealed to anybody.”

    Meanwhile, Adebowale’s counsel, Barr Omobolaji Adejumo, cautioned against forcible ejection of his client.

    Adejumo in a letter to Owosho, said:” Our brief revealed there is a subsisting and valid yearly tenancy agreement between our client and your client reserved the right to terminate such tenancy agreement. Our client does not wish to detain possession but will however insist on his legal right of being served the statutory six month notice of a yearly tenant.”