Man In Court Over Assault

A 21-year-old trader, Opeyemi Abdullahi yesterday in an Ogudu  Magistrates’ Court, Lagos faced assault charges after police said he beat up a pregnant woman who refused to accept his request for an intimate relationship.
Abdullahi of Ikolaba Street, Ibadan is facing a one count-charge of assault.
The Prosecutor, Insp Lucky Ihiehie, told the court that the accused committed the offence on November 1 at about 5 p.m at  Ojota Bus Stop.
Ihiehie said the complainant Koyinsola Saib, was returning from work with her friend when she met the accused at Maryland Bus Stop and approached her for a relationship.
The prosecutor alleged that the accused tried to blackmail the  complainant.
He alleged that Abdullahi, accused the complainant. her husband, mother and brother  of “selling children”.
“The accused threatened to expose the complainant and that the only way he was going to delete the pictures was if she could abort her pregnancy and marry him.
He said the accused followed the supposed complainant secretly if she would go out with him.
“When she refused, he assaulted and inflicted injury on her”,he told the court.
According to the prosecutor, the offence contravened Section 173 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
The Magistrate, Mrs Ejiro Kubeinje, granted the accused bail in the sum of N50, 000 with  one surety in like sum.
Kubeinje ordered that the surety must reside within the court jurisdiction with  the evidence of tax payments.
The magistrate adjourned the case until December 2 for mention.