2 Charged with Threatening Landlord over Rent Increment in Lagos

 

 

The Lagos State Police Command has arraigned two men before a Lagos magistrate’s court sitting in Ebute-Meta for threatening a landlord over increment in his rent rate.

 

The police prosecutor, Sergeant Jimah Iseghede, told the court that the suspects -  Ezekwu Ebere, 33, and Ifeanyi Nwanna, 31, - and others at large committed the offence on September 21, 2017, at about 2:00p.m. at No. 17 Martins Street, Balogun, Lagos Island.

 

Iseghede said the men conspired to commit an offence likely to cause breach of peace by going to Emmanuel Ikehi’s office shouting and threatening him.

 

He said that the complainant, Ikehi, complained that the two suspects and three others who are all his tenants at the Allied Shopping Complex, No. 47/48, Breadfruit Street, Lagos Island, burst into his office and threatened to make life miserable for him because of an increment in rent rate which he intended to effect as a result of the renovation in the shopping complex.

 

 According to the statement of one of the tenants, Ngwo Kanayo, who was one of those who allegedly stormed Ikehi’s office but whose name was not on the charge sheet, “I and some other traders in the plaza went to Mr. Emmanuel Ikehi’s office in response to his call. He had called us in respect of the increment, which he said was going to be N130,000 yearly.

 

 

The defendants pleaded not guilty to the two-count charge against them. The chief magistrate, Miss Tolulope Idowu, granted the defendants bail in the sum of N50,000 with two sureties and adjourned the case until November 11, 2017 for mention.