The Police at the Ilasan
Division, Lekki have arrested a dismissed Soldier, Mohammed Abdul, 29, a native
of Anyangba area of Kogi State for allegedly beating a lady in Lekki, Uwa
Asemota for refusing to follow him to his house to have sex.
A police source said that the
timely intervention of the Female Divisional Police Officer, DPO, in charge of
Ilasan Division, SP Onyinye Onwuemegbu saved the victim from being killed by
the Soldier.
She was said to have dispatched a
team led by Orukotan Lonikola to the scene to arrest the suspect and bring him
to the Station following distress calls from the public that a soldier was
beating a lady along the Silverbird Road, Lekki, Lagos.
During investigation, according
to the Police, the suspect identified himself as a serving soldier, but when
the DPO was not convinced, she notified the military police at the Bonny Camp
Cantonment, Victoria Island about the development and they came to the Station
to pick the suspect and took him to their Military base for interrogation.
Police alleged that after the
military police investigated the suspect, they brought him back to the station
and told the DP0 that Abdul was a dismissed soldier from the Nigerian Army for
deserting the Force in Borno State.
Narrating her ordeals in the hands
of the soldier to the police, Asemota allegedly stated; “I was on my way to
work on the day of the incident when the suspect in army uniform accosted me
along the Silver bird Road, Lekki and introduced himself as a Military officer.
“The soldier later told me that I
was too beautiful and that if I refused to follow him to his house to have sex,
he would kill me, boasting that he had killed many Boko Haram suspects in Borno
State and that if he kill me, nothing will happen,” she said.
Asemota said that she was shocked
because she had never experience such maltreatment in her life and had not met
the soldier in her life.
“The soldier later collected my
phone and bag in broad daylight and remove his belt to tie my two hands and
started beating me and anyone who come closer to beg him to spare me, he will
hit the person with his fist and they will run away and I became scared and
knelt down on the road and started begging him to spare my life all to no
avail“.
She stated that the soldier was
about to forcefully take her away when the police from Ilasan Division, Lekki
came to the scene to rescued her.
Abdul was arraigned before an
Igbosere Magistrate Court, Lagos on one count charge of unlawfully assaulting
Uwa Asemota and tying her hands with belt against her will.
Police prosecutor, Kingsley
Johnson informed the court in charge number D/81/2017 that the accused
committed the offence on 17 October, 2017 along Silverbird Road, Jakande,
Lagos.
Johnson told the Court that the
accused assaulted the complainant in the public by using belt to tie her hands
for no Just cause.
He said the offence committed is
punishable under section 172 of the criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
The defendant pleaded not guilty
to the charge and Chief Magistrate A.O Komolafe granted him bail in the sum of
N100,000 with two sureties in like sum and adjourned the case till 22 November,
2017 for mention.
Komolafe ordered that the
defendant be remanded in Ikoyi Prison till he is able to meet the bail
condiitions.
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