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2 Docked for Flouting Court Orders Lagos By Chika Amanze-Nwachuku Two men, a 42 year-old traditional chief at Oke-Shasha area of Lagos State, Chief Akeem Raufu and Akeeb Rasheed, have been docked at Yaba Chief Magistrate Court on a 14-count charge of alleged disobedience to a court order, stealing, assault, and unlawful damage to landed property. The two accused persons were alleged to have among other things forcifully entered a landed property belonging to a business man. Babagbemiga Coker at Coker Estate Orisumbare Shasha, Lagos between May and June this year. Arguing the case before the trial Chief Magistrate, Mrs O. A. Okunuga, the prosecuting police officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) informed the court that the accused persons without any lawful excuse disobeyed a court order dated May 6. Besides the said order of May 6, the prosecution noted that the accused persons shunned another court order dated May 3, 2002 by Chief Magistrate A. O. Odugbesan in respect of a criminal charge No. A/32/2002, compelling the duo and the complainant to maintain peace on the land throughout the duration of the action. Other charges preferred against the accused person were that they allegedly damaged a Deeper Life Bible Church building and a block industry containing 5,000 pieces of blocks totalling over N5 million. The accused persons were also alleged to have assaulted three estate agents, Gbenga Ogunmokun, Lukeman Babatunde and Adegboyega Jones by inflicting injuries on them with machetes. The prosecution alleged that the accused persons, in a ploy to destabilise the peace in the area, shot indiscriminately into the air without lawful authority. The actions, the prosecution submitted, were against section 244 (d) of the Criminal Code Cap C17, Vol. 11, Laws of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2003. Meanwhile, the court has granted each of the accused bail in the sum of N100,000 with two sureties. Who Are We ? | About THISDAYOnLine.com | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000 Leaders & Company Limited

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