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Nigerian tenants cut off landlord's leg while refusing to pay rent
27 Apr 2011 at 21:26hrs | Views
Nigeria - An Abuja magistrate Wednesday sentenced three tenants, Aliyu Aliru, James Doma, and Onyebuchi Odili, to two months imprisonment each for cutting off the leg of their landlord.
Magistrate Musa Jobbo sentenced each of the accused persons to one month imprisonment for public disturbance and another month for causing grievous hurt to their victim.
They were not given any option of fine for the offences they admitted committing.
Police prosecutor, Rinmak Kefas, had told the court that the accused persons were arrested on April 23 by the police in Utako District, Abuja, when they attacked David, the landlord, with cutlasses and knives.
He said as a result of the fight, the accused persons cut off their landlord's leg and that the victim is presently receiving treatment at Maitama General Hospital, Abuja.
Kefas said the fight caused chaos at Utako "as people began to run helter-skelter, and shop owners closed their shops, thinking that there was a riot."
He said that one of the accused persons confessed that they attacked the landlord to punish him for taking them to court where they were remanded in prison custody.
"The convicts said the landlord had always complained about their lifestyles and had threatened to send them out of his house.
"They also said the fight started as a result of a heated argument they had with the landlord after asking them to pay their house rent," the prosecutor added.
Magistrate Musa Jobbo sentenced each of the accused persons to one month imprisonment for public disturbance and another month for causing grievous hurt to their victim.
They were not given any option of fine for the offences they admitted committing.
Police prosecutor, Rinmak Kefas, had told the court that the accused persons were arrested on April 23 by the police in Utako District, Abuja, when they attacked David, the landlord, with cutlasses and knives.
Kefas said the fight caused chaos at Utako "as people began to run helter-skelter, and shop owners closed their shops, thinking that there was a riot."
He said that one of the accused persons confessed that they attacked the landlord to punish him for taking them to court where they were remanded in prison custody.
"The convicts said the landlord had always complained about their lifestyles and had threatened to send them out of his house.
"They also said the fight started as a result of a heated argument they had with the landlord after asking them to pay their house rent," the prosecutor added.
Source - Daily Trust
