A Lagos landlord, Nwachukwu Sunday Edemi, 49, has been sent to the Kirikiri Maximum Security Prisons, Apapa, Lagos by the Ejigbo Magistrate’s Court for allegedly evicting his tenant illegally.
He was remanded in prison custody because he could not meet the bail conditions after he was arraigned before the court for stealing properties worth millions of naira belonging to Mrs. Victoria Kate Ahunmunde, his tenant.
The landlord, whose house is located at 9, Kola Ogundeji Street, Idimu, Lagos was alleged to have broken into his tenant’s flat and threw out her properties and rented the house to another tenant.
His action was reported to the police and he was arrested and charged with illegal entry, stealing and breach of public peace.
P.M.NEWS gathered that the landlord carried out the illegal act when the woman travelled. The three-count charge is contrary to sections 390, 413, 411, 412, 440 and 451 of the Criminal Code, Cap,C.17, Vol.2, Laws of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2003.
He pleaded not guilty to the charge and Magistrate M.B. Folami granted him bail in the sum of N5 million with two sureties.
The matter has been adjourned till 21 April, 2010 while the accused was remanded in prison, pending when he will meet the bail conditions.
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Posted: at 27-03-2010 03:16 PM (14 years ago) | Addicted Hero
ohboyent01 at 27-03-2010 03:26 PM (14 years ago) (m)
well...i guess its about time ppl start understand there must be due process for such things as evicting a tenant....i do feel for him tho' cos we only knw about the side of the tenant,we don't knw if he is being owed for a ridiculous period of time...
Posted: at 27-03-2010 03:26 PM (14 years ago) | Newbie
he ia at fault any way ,he should have follow a due process and rule of law ibstead of taking law into is own hand , that useless tenant must have provoke him by owing him some months if not years of unpaid rentage dues,but all the same the judgement is just to harsh
Posted: at 28-03-2010 08:25 AM (14 years ago) | Grande Master
It is time to start putting landlord in jain for collect 1 or 2 yrs advance rent. Its never done anywhere-elese in the world.
Isn't there enywhere or any secction in the Criminal Code of the country's constitution or state law where this act is consider illegal?.
you are very very wrong , and its acceptable too , and its practice else where too not only in nigeria , altough i don,t my self do such a thing . never , the problem with that very man is that of unlawful braking into the tenant,s room ,no one does such a thing in any civilised society you know
Posted: at 28-03-2010 08:49 PM (14 years ago) | Grande Master