Man assaults neighbours with bucket over theft of pure water sachets

Man assaults neighbours with bucket
over theft of pure water sachets
on october 24, 2013 at 4:24 pm in news
Lagos – The police on Thursday in Lagos arraigned
a 46-year-old man, Segun Okeseara, for allegedly
assaulting his neighbours with an aluminium bucket
over alleged theft of his sachets of pure water in
their apartment.
Okeseara, who lives at No. 3, Olatunde Adegbesan
St., Alapere, Ketu, Lagos, is facing a charge of
assault at an Isheri Senior Magistrates’ Court.
He, however, entered a plea of not guilty.
But the prosecutor, Insp. Nurudeen Thomas, told
the court that the accused committed the offence at
7.20 p.m on Oct. 21 at No. 3, Olatunde Adegbesan
St., Alapere in Ketu, a Lagos suburb.
He alleged that the accused hit two of his
neighbours — Dada Jelili and Ajani Amidu — with an
aluminium bucket and injured them over missing
sachets of pure water kept in front of his room.
“When the accused challenged the complainants
about it, they denied any knowledge about the
missing sachets of pure water.
“Okeseara became violent and hit Jelili with an
aluminium bucket on the head leaving a deep cut.
He also stoned Amidu on the forehead,” Thomas
said.
The offence, he noted, contravened Section 171 of
the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
Section 171 stipulates three years imprisonment for
the accused on conviction.
The Senior Magistrate, Mrs Olajunoke Olagbegi-
Adelabu, granted the accused bail in the sum of
N100,000 with two sureties in like sum.