The Ogun State Police Command has dragged two suspects before an Ota Magistrates’ Court in the state for alleged assault and threat to life.
The suspects, Akintilebo Akintayo, 45, and Faith Philip, 37, were arraigned on Friday with three counts of conspiracy, assault and threat to life.
The two defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges when it was read to them.
The Magistrate, Mrs A.O. Adeyemi, granted the defendants bail in the sum of N100,000 each, with one surety each in like sum.
Adeyemi ordered that the surety must reside within the court’s jurisdiction and be gainfully employed with tax payment to the Ogun State Government.
She adjourned the case until June 27 for further hearing.
Earlier, the Prosecutor, Insp E.O. Adaraloye, told the court that the defendants and others still at large, committed the offences on March 31 at about 9:00 p.m. at Bells Bus-Stop, Ota.
READ ALSO: Police foil kidnap attempt, kill two terrorists, rescue victims in Katsina
Adaraloye told the court that the defendants, with their accomplices, conspired to conduct themselves in a manner likely to cause a breach of peace by threatening to kill the complainant, one Mr Odia Clement.
He alleged that they also assaulted and tore the complainant’s cloth.
The prosecutor said the offences contravened the Criminal Code, Vol.1, Laws of Ogun, 2006.
Meanwhile, a 13-year-old student of a Qur’anic school, Yusuf Magaji, has drowned in a pond at Makugara village in Karaye Local Government Area of Kano State on Thursday.
The spokesman of the Kano State Fire Service, Saminu Abdullahi, confirmed the accident in a statement issued in Kano on Friday.
“We received an emergency call and we sent our rescue team to the scene but Yusuf was brought out of the pond unconscious.
“Our men conveyed him to Karaye Specialist Hospital when a doctor confirmed him dead,’’ Abdullahi stated.
He said the corpse was handed over to Malam Nafi’u Na-Adama, proprietor of the Qur’anic school.
Abdullahi explained that Yusuf and some others were on their way to a neighbouring village but stopped by the pond to clean their bodies when he slipped inside and could not come out.