A man named Sikiru Tijani was charged on Tuesday in front of Magistrate Adeola Olatunbosun of the Yaba Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State with allegedly attacking persons and forcibly obtaining a plot of property that belonged to the Thomas Olufuwa family in the state’s Idiapaye neighbourhood.
On five charges of assault, forcible entrance, and malicious property damage, the 59-year-old was charged.
Rita Momoh, the police prosecutor, claims that the charges violate Section 170(1)(b) and are punishable under Sections 412, 53, 52, 172, 3, and 50 of the Lagos State Criminal Law from 2015.
The accusation stated, in part, “That you, Sikiru Tijani, and others now at large, sometime in 2018, at Idiapaye, Lagos State, within the magisterial district of this court, did assault Baale Thomas and his family members by threatening to inflict machete cuts on them and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 170(1)(b) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 and punishable under Section 172 of the same Law.
That you, Sikiru Tijani, and other people who are still at large damaged economic trees owned by the Olufuwa Royal Family in Idiapaye, Lagos State, within the magisterial district of this court, in violation of Section 52 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015, willfully and unlawfully.
However, the defendant entered a not guilty plea.
The magistrate released him on bail in the amount of N1 million with three sureties in the same amount.
