Two female lawyers who were on Tuesday arrested by the police in Lagos were on Wednesday, March 17, arraigned at an Ojo Magistrates” Court in Ojo Lagos for affray by daring to fight inside the court’s premises
The defendants, Adaobi Emeka (pregnant) aged 37 years, and Nkiru Nwayanwu, aged 40, years were charged on one count of affray by engaging in physical combat in the court’s compound.
They had pleaded not guilty to the offence.
The Prosecutor, Supol Simon Uche told the court that the defendants committed the offence on March 16 in the court premises.
He said that his attention was drawn by a shouting crowd outside the court room, who informed the court that the two female lawyers were fighting.
He said that they were immediately arrested and taken to the Ojo Police station where they were detained .
According to the prosecutor, the lawyers
were subsequently, allowed to go home on self.recoginisance with an order to re-appear at the station the next day
The lawyers were consequently arraigned before the Magistrate, Mr A.A Adesanya and after their respective pleas, were granted bail in the sum of N100,000 each with sureties in like sum.
The court ordered that the sureties must be blood relations or clergy men .
The court added that the defendants must produce a letter of good behaviour from their respective NBA branches.
Adaobi who is pregnant was said to have engaged in the fracas with Nkiru her colleague, after both lawyers struggled to offer their complimentary cards to suspects who were just produced before the court on Tuesday March 16.
The pregnant lawyer, Adaobi, was reported to have first offered her
cards to suspects who were just produced before the court on Tuesday March 16.
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The pregnant lawyer, Adaobi, was reported to have first offered her card to the suspects but was opposed by Nkiru who immediately threw her card on the floor. in reaction, Adaobi also grabbed the complimentary card of Nkiru and this time, flung it outside the Court’s window
During their arraignment , the suspects were produced from detention to give a narration before the court on how the incident occured.
They explained to the court that the lawyers had both offered them their complimentary cards, but became antagonistic towards one another as a result.
The offences contravenes the provisions of sections 54 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State 2015
The court has adjourned the case until May 18 for mention
At the time of filing this reports relatives of the defendants who are still in police custody were still making efforts to perfect the bail conditions of the defendants. (Triplenet)
