A 21-year-old carpenter, Nojeem, on Wednesday appeared before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly setting his neighbour’s car ablaze over his wife’s refusal to accept his sexual advance.
He is facing a two count charge of breach of peace and arson.
According to the prosecution Counsel, Sergeant Michael Unah, Nojeem, who lives in the Ayobo-Ipaja area of Lagos State, allegedly set a Mitsubishi GDI Space Wagon valued at N500,000, the property of one Mr. Abubakar ablaze.
Unah told the court that the defendant committed the offence on March 15, at 3 a.m. at Ayobo-Ipaja.
He said the defendant conducted himself in a manner likely to cause a breach of peace by unlawfully demanding sex from the complainant’s wife when he was on a night shift at work.
“The defendant knocked on the complainant’s door in the middle of the night and demanded sex from the complainant’s wife.
“The defendant claimed he saw the complainant’s wife in his dream having sexual intercourse with him and approached her to let them have the sex in real life.
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“The wife declined and in the process, the defendant angrily set the complainant’s car on fire,” the prosecutor said.
The offence, according to the prosecutor, contravened the provisions of sections 168 and 342 (b) of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State 2015, (Revised)
Breach of peace attracts a six month jail term while arson carries a life sentence upon conviction.
Chief Magistrate A.A. Fashola granted bail to the defendant in the sum of N100,000 with two sureties in like sum with an order that the sureties must be gainfully employed with evidence of two years tax payment to the Lagos State Government and have their addresses verified by the court.
Hearing was adjourned to May 9.
