Keep My Son In Jail, Dad Begs Judge

A man, Hassan Badmus made a passionate appeal to the presiding magistrate at the Ejigbo magistrate court, Mrs. S.O. Solebo to keep his son, Nurudeen in prison because he was a torn in his fresh.

Hassan told the court that he no longer resides in his house at Ola Salami Street, Egan, on the outskirts of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria because Nurudeen wanted to kill him.

The embittered father told the court that Nurudeen bought a machete which he has been using to pursue him before he escaped.

He said since then, he has not returned to his house because his son wanted to kill him, saying that the court should keep him in Kirikiri so that he could have peace and return to his house.

Hassan said that his predicament started when he advised Nurudeen to stop smoking Indian hemp and moving with bad friends.

Instead of listening to his advice, he went and bought a cutlass to kill him.

But Nurudeen in his statement said that his father went and married two new wives and abandoned him and his mother including his younger siblings.

Because of the threat, Hassan went to Igando police station and reported his ordeal.

Nurudeen was arrested and taken to court for attempting to kill Hassan and smoking of Indian hemp under sections 86 and 249 of the criminal code cap 17 vol. 2 laws of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2003.

When the matter came up at the court, the father pleaded with the court to keep him in jail so as to spare his life.

But the court noted that the alleged offence was a bailable one and subsequently granted him bail in the sum of N100,000 with two sureties in like sum.

The court ordered that the sureties must show evidence of means of livelihood and their addresses must be verified.

The matter was adjourned till 30 June 2011 for mention while the defendant was ordered to be remanded at Kirikiri Prison, Apapa, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria pending the fulfilment of the bail conditions.

—Cyriacus Izuekwe