LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – A Court sitting in Abuja has ordered that a 40-year-old businessman Abubakar Sanusi be remanded in a correction centre for allegedly threatening to kidnap his landlord.
The Police charged the defendant, Sanusi, with criminal intentional hurt and intimidation
Presiding judge, Saminu Suleiman ordered that the defendant be remanded in the Nigerian Correctional Service facility in Suleja, until 15 August.
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Earlier, the prosecutor, Chinedu Ogade told the court that the complainant, Chimezie Nwokeogu, who is the defendant’s landlord, reported the matter at the Zuba Police Station in Kano on 27 July.
Ogada said the complainant reported that the defendant’s rent expired over one year ago and he refused to pay or move out of the house.
He said that when the complainant requested for his rent money from the defendant, he refused to pay.
The Police alleged that the defendant threatened to kidnap his landlord.
The defendant pleaded not guilty to the offence and the prosecutor prayed the court to grant him date to open his case.
(NAN)