A lagos landlady,Josephine Durodola got beaten of her life from one of her tenants.
Durodola’s crime was asking the tenant, Usman Hammed for electricity bill.
The incident happened at No 25, Olaniyi Street, Agiliti, in the Mile 12 area of Lagos State.
Hammed has been arraigned by the Lagos State Police Command before a Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ogudu over the incident.
The defendant was arraigned on Thursday before Magistrate M.O. Tanimola for assault.
The prosecutor, Inspector Donjor Perezi, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on April 8, 2023, around 9pm at No 25, Olaniyi Street, Agiliti, in the Mile 12 area of the state.
Perezi added that the defendant assaulted his landlady when she demanded from him money for payment of his electricity bill.
According to him, the defendant hit the complainant’s head against an iron gate which caused her to be hospitalised.
The prosecutor added that the offence contravened Section 173 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2015.
The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge preferred against him.
The Magistrate, Tanimola, therefore granted him bail in the sum of N100,000 with two sureties in like sum and adjourned the case till May 16, 2023, for mention.
