LAGOS – An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State on Thursday remanded a driver, Anthony Ogboju , 29, in custody at the Ikoyi Prisons, for allegedly stabbing to death one Jonathan Emeh, a co-tenant, with a kitchen knife.
Magistrate Y.B. Okusanya-Badejo gave the order at the arraignment of the accused.
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Okusanya-Badejo said that the accused should be kept behind bars at the Ikoyi Prisons for 30 days, pending legal advice from the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
The accused, who resides at No. 23, Ojurongbe St., Okunola, Egbeda, a suburb of Lagos, is standing trial over alleged murder.
The prosecutor, Cpl. Cyriacus Osuji, had earlier told the court that the accused stabbed Emeh to death following a disagreement between them.
Osuji alleged that a fight ensued between Emeh and Ogboju when Emeh pushed out the younger sister to Ogboju from the bathroom, where both of them were tenants.
“Out of annoyance, Ogboju picked up a kitchen knife and stabbed the deceased in the back, instantly killing him”, he said.
Osuji, said the offence was committed on Dec. 22, 2014, at about 9.40 p.m., at their residence.
He said that the offence contravened Section 221 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Section 221 prescribes that subject to the provisions of any other law, a person who commits the offence shall be sentenced to death.
The chief magistrate adjourned the case to May 11. (NAN)