By Deborah Akpede
Ikeja – Two businessmen, Bakinson Adeyemi, 75 and Peter Obaji, 55, who allegedly assaulted a 94-were on Thursday in Lagos docked before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly assaulting a 94-year-old man with a cutlass over land dispute.
The police charged Adeyemi and Obaji with four counts of conspiracy, breach of peace, damage and grievous harm.
The defendants pleaded not guilty.
The prosecution counsel, Insp. Adegoke Phillip, told the court that the defendants and others still at large committed the offence on April 2011 at Ikeja, Lagos.
He alleged that the defendants conducted themselves in a manner likely to cause breach of peace by maliciously damaging the property of Mr Lasisi Odulate and assaulting him.
“The defendants forcefully entered the complainant’s land, demolished his bungalow, 24 rooms and shops.
“They slashed his slashed with a machete. They were arrested eight years after,” the prosecutor said.
The offence, he said, contravened the provisions of sections 168, 245, 350 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
Magistrate O.A. Akokhia admitted the defendants to bail in the sum of N2 million each with two sureties each in like sum.
Akokhia ordered that the sureties must be gainfully employed and show evidence of two years tax payment to the Lagos State Government.
The magistrate adjourned the case until Feb. 2 for mention.
(NAN)