A 26-year-old trader, Uchenna Okeke, on
Tuesday appeared in an Ikeja Magistrates'
Court for allegedly beating up a
policeman. Okeke, a resident of Oluwalimu
Street, Ikeja, Lagos, is being tried for
breach of peace and assault. The
Prosecutor, Insp. George Nwosu, told the
court that the accused committed the
offences on June 11 at Ikeja, Lagos. He
said the accused unlawfully assaulted a
policeman in uniform attached to MAN
Centre Police station for preventing Okeke
from killing his lover. `
`The accused beat up the complainant
and also caused injury to his head,’’ he
said.
"The police corporal saw the accused
beating his girlfriend and dragging her on
the ground, he rushed to the scene to
prevent the accused from committing
murder. When he wanted to stop the
accused from beating his lover, the
accused transferred his aggression to him
for preventing him from dealing with his
fiancée. He beat him up and hit him with
a stone on his head which resulted to
bleeding,’’ he said. The accused pleaded
innocence of the offences and was granted
bail in the sum of N100,000 with two
sureties in like sum
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