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Spare Parts Dealer Who Assaults Woman Brought To Book By The Heroic Intervention Of Lagos CP
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A housewife recently alleged that a spare parts dealer in Ladipo Market assaulted her.
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The Lagos police commissioner personally waded into the conflict after the victim curiously recanted her allegations.
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Afterwards, the police chief concluded that the man and his accomplice had a case to answer.
Eko Hot Blog reports that the Lagos State Police Command on Wednesday arraigned a Lagos-based spare parts dealer, Ebube Eddy, aka Bebex, before a Lagos Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ogba, for allegedly assaulting a housewife, Omolara James.
The police arraigned 37-year-old Eddy alongside 27-year-old Ali Musa on three counts before the Magistrate, Mrs O. A. Odubayo.
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The police prosecutor, C. Olagbayi, told the court that the defendants committed the offence on April 20, 2023, at Mercedes Benz Line, Ladipo Market, Mushin, Lagos.
“That you, Ebube Eddy and Ali Musa, on April 20 around 8pm at Mercedes Benz Line, Ladipo Market, Mushin Lagos, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did conspire among yourselves to commit felony wit: conduct likely to cause a breach of peace and assault and thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 411 of the criminal law of Lagos State, 2015,” the charge reads.
“That you, Ebube Eddy, on the same day, time and place at the aforesaid magisterial district did conduct yourself in a manner to cause a breach of peace by making moves to indecently assault one Omolara James, 26, by wanting to touch her breast and thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 168(d) of the Lagos Criminal Law, 2015.
“That you, Ali Musa, on the same day, time and place at the aforesaid magisterial district did assault one Omolara James by slapping her on her face thereby committing an offence contrary to Section 170 and punishable under Section 172 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.”
The magistrate granted them bail in the sum of N100,000 with two sureties.
She however ordered that they be remanded in a correctional centre pending when they will meet their bail conditions.
Magistrate Odubayo subsequently adjourned the case till May 15, 2023.
The arraignment came after the state Commissioner of Police, Idowu Owohunwa, ordered that Eddy and his accomplice be charged to court immediately for allegedly assaulting James.
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Idowu Owohunwa, earlier holding a fact-checking meeting with the parties involved
Owohunwa further removed the Mushin Divisional Police Officer (DPO) for the shoddy manner in which his men handled the case when it was first reported at the station.
James had in a video that went viral on social media at the weekend, accused Eddy of alleged harassment and assault.
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Idowu Owohunwa, earlier holding a fact-checking meeting with the parties involved
She alleged that when she did not yield to his sexual demand, he ordered his boys to slap her.
She, however, later released another video in which she recanted her earlier allegation. There were insinuations that she was pressured to recant, hence, the decision of the CP to reopen and take over the case.
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The state Police Public Relations Officer, Ben Hundeyin, had disclosed that based on the need to ensure justice, Owohunwa personally interviewed all parties in the case, including James, Eddy, their lawyers, the landlord association and community members among others.
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