{"id":861,"date":"2014-08-25T07:59:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T07:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=861"},"modified":"2014-08-25T08:01:58","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T08:01:58","slug":"landladys-children-arraigned-for-cutting-tenants-private-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=861","title":{"rendered":"Landlady\u2019s children arraigned for cutting tenant\u2019s private parts"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Offehin<\/a>
Offehin on the hospital bed | credits: File<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The police have arraigned two men\u2013 Olowogbemi Solomon (24) and Olayeye Damilola (22) \u2013 for allegedly robbing a tenant, Olayinka Offehin, and cutting his scrotum.<\/p>\n

The incident happened in the Ikotun area of Lagos.<\/p>\n

DeltaNewsRoom.com<\/em> had reported on July 31 that the men, who were children of Offehin\u2019s landlady, attacked Offehin and his family members while they were asleep.<\/p>\n

Our correspondent reported that the two men allegedly stole N800, 000, and cut the scrotum of the victim during the incident.<\/p>\n

The police arraigned the duo before an Ebute Meta Magistrate\u2019s Court on three counts of robbery and attempted murder.<\/p>\n

The police prosecutor, Sergeant Cousin Adams, said the offences were punishable under sections 295, 228 and 231 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2011.<\/p>\n

The charges read in part, \u201cThat you, Olowogbemi Solomon and Olayeye Damilola, did attempt to unlawfully kill one Olayinka Offahin by slicing his scrotum with knife\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adams asked the court to remand the defendants in prison for the first 30 days pending legal advice from the Directorate of Public Prosecutions.<\/p>\n

However, the defence counsel, Ojieh Friday, said the charges preferred against the defendants were \u201cfrivolous\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cThis is basically a tenancy issue; there was no robbery. At worse, this should be a case of assault occasioning harm. The charges were written in bad faith and we want the court to look into this.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Magistrate, F.J. Adefioye, asked the Investigating Police Officer, Sergeant Moses Godgift, of the Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba, to tell the court the outcome of police investigation.<\/p>\n

Godgift said, \u201cIn the course of our investigation, the following facts were brought to light.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe two defendants and the complainant were living in the same building. The defendants were the stepsons of the landlady.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe men, in an attempt to kill the complainant, stabbed him on his scrotum. They also robbed him of his money and property. It was based on these findings that they are arraigned before your honour.\u201d<\/p>\n

The magistrate ruled that the two defendants should be remanded in custody.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving listened to the prosecutor, and conducted a preliminary investigation by hearing from the IPO, this court is convinced that there is probable cause for remand. This court therefore upholds the application of the prosecutor and rejects the request of the defence learned counsel.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe defendants are to be remanded in prison for the first 30 days pending legal advice from the DPP,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The matter was adjourned till September 17, 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The police have arraigned two men\u2013 Olowogbemi Solomon (24) and Olayeye Damilola (22) \u2013 for allegedly robbing a tenant, Olayinka Offehin, and cutting his scrotum. The incident happened in the Ikotun area of Lagos. DeltaNewsRoom.com had reported on July 31 that the men, who were children of Offehin\u2019s landlady, attacked Offehin and his family members […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-strange-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Offehin-on-the-hospital-bed-360x225.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-dT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}