50 yr-old woman charged with assault
A 50-year-old woman Madam Delta Imene was on Monday arraigned before an Abuja Magistrate Court for assaulting a police officer.
The accused of Kuruduma villiage was arraigned on a three-count charge of joint act, shop breaking and theft, offences punishable under Sections 79, 264 and 241 of the Penal Code.,
The prosecutor, Philips Akogwu, told the court that on October 7, one Ibrahim Saidu attached to ‘B’ department Federal Housing Quarters, reported at the Asokoro police station that when he went to the accused beer parlour, (Delta lodge) at Kuruduma village, Abuja, to effect her arrest with other police officers, the accused conspired with her son now at large and criminally assaulted him.
The prosecutor stated further that the accused held the officer by the neck while her son took a star beer bottle and hit him on his head, adding that he sustained
injuries in the process and was rushed to Asokoro General Hospital for treatment.
He said the complainant incurred a bill of N4,070 at the Asokoro General Hospital while his N12,000 cash, Nokia phone valued at N9,000, sandal and belt valued at N800 got missing in the process.
The accused pleaded not guilty when the charges were read to her and requested for bail, denying that the second accused person is not her son.
The prosecutor urged the court to issue a bench warrant on the second accused person to compel him to appear before the court on the next adjournment date.
Magistrate Nkwadimi I. Buba granted the accused person bail in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties in like sum who must reside within the court’s jurisdiction.
The Magistrate also issued a bench warrant for the arrest of the second accused person who is now at large and adjourned the case to November 3 for hearing.
Daily Trust Thursday, October 14, 2010
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By Romoke W. Ahmad
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