” I asked him to use a condom but he said he did not have one. So, I told him to take me back home with his car he started fighting me.”
Two lovers,
Emem Asuquo and Olugbenga Yakubu, have been remanded in prison by a
Tinubu Magistrate’s Court sitting on Lagos Island for alleged public
disturbance.
They were
arraigned on Wednesday on four counts of assault and conduct likely to
cause breach of the peace before Magistrate A.A. Adefulire.
the lady lawyer
learnt that an altercation broke out after 31-year-old Asuquo insisted
that Yakubu, 51, use a condom before having s*x with her, but he
reportedly declined the request.
learnt that
Yakubu, while driving along the Lekki-Epe Expressway at about 7pm on
July 6, had offered Asuquo, who was going towards Lakowe in Ibeju-Lekki,
a ride.
They were said to have exchanged phone numbers and promised to meet each other later in the night.
Yakubu, a civil
servant, was said to have picked up the hairdresser at her home in Ajah
around 2am the next day and took her to his house on Adeyinka Oyekan
Street, Abraham Adesanya Estate, Ajah.
“On getting to
his house, he entertained me after which we went inside his room. He
said he wanted me to have sex with him. I told him I would collect
N30,000 and he agreed. I asked him to use a condom but he said he did
not have one. So, I told him to take me back home in his car,” Asuquo
said.
She explained that the man dropped her off at VGC Roundabout, saying he did not have enough fuel in his car.
She said she called a taxi driver to pick her up from the area.
It was learnt
that a scuffle ensued when she requested Yakubu to wait for her until
the taxi driver arrived for fear of being robbed.
“When he
refused, I removed his car key. He was beating me when the taxi driver
and two others arrived and they intervened. He injured me in the eye. I
also used a stone to smash the windscreen of his car,” she added.
Our correspondent learnt that Yakubu later reported the incident at the Ajah Police Division, and Asuquo was arrested.
Yakubu, in his
statement to the police, said Asuquo had called the driver and other
occupants of the taxi to beat him up, adding that he sustained injuries.
He said, “She
followed me to my house, but refused to make love with me after buying
her drinks. At a point, she started screaming that I should take her
back to her house. When we got to the roundabout, she removed my car key
and held my shirt. Two men and a lady she called came in a Golf car and
started beating me.
“I held Asuquo
by the hair and began punching her while the two men did same to me. In
the end, they injured me and broke the windscreen of my car.”
A police
prosecutor, Inspector Philip Osijale, subsequently arraigned the duo
before the Tinubu Magistrate’s Court on four counts of assault and
breach of the public peace.
Osijale told the court that the charges contravened sections 54, 171, 349 and 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
The charges
read in part, “That you, Emem Asuquo, and others now at large on July 7,
2016, at about 3.30am at VGC Roundabout, Ajah, in the Lagos Magisterial
District, did willfully damage the windscreen of one unregistered
Carina E with a stone.
“That you,
Olugbenga Yakubu, on the same date, time and place, in the
aforementioned magisterial district, did unlawfully assault one Emem
Asuquo by hitting her with a fist blow in her left eye, which did her
harm, thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 171 of the
Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.”
The defendants pleaded not guilty to the counts.
The magistrate,
Adefulire, admitted Asuquo to bail in the sum of N500,000 with one
surety, while Yakubu was admitted to bail in the sum of N200,000 with a
surety in like sum.
Adefulire held that they should be kept in prison until they perfect their bail condition
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