CITY NEWS Mob stabs suspected Sodomy suspect remanded in motorcycle thief prison in Kwali
Kubwa residents petition AEPB over activities of lounge
Amob stabbed and inflicted a deep cut on a suspected motorcycle thief at Kwali market on Tuesday evening.
A witness, Shedrack Musa, said the incident happened at about 5:11p.m. when the suspect, who was yet to be identified, allegedly tried to escape with a motorcycle.
He said a wheelbarrow porter saw the suspect attempting to flee with the motorcycle and raised an alarm.
He said the owner of the motorcycle had gone into the market to buy foodstuff when the suspect attempted to steal the machine.
“A wheelbarrow pusher shouted thief, thief and that attracted the attention of other people in the market who ran after the suspect Residents of 21 Road, Kubwa have petitioned Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) over what they termed public nuisance and noise pollution by Dzake Lounge.
The residents said the activities of the lounge also constituted security threat to the area.
The petition was signed by 14 people on behalf of the residents and received by AEPB director on May 26.
“We humbly wish to bring to your notice and attention the unpleasant, nefarious and inhuman activities of Dzake Lounge within this residential community who had before and apprehended him. Somebody in the crowd must have used a sharp object to stab him on the face,” he said.
The witness said the suspect would have been lynched but for the intervention of some policemen who rushed to the scene and conveyed him to hospital.
Our reporter gathered that cases of motorcycle theft were becoming rampant on the market day in Kwali.
The Kwali DPO, Lambert Dauda, said he was not authorised to talk to the press and referred our reporter to FCT command PPRO.
Efforts to get reaction of the FCT police command PPRO, Usen Omorodion, were not successful as his phone was switched off at the time our reporter called yesterday evening. enjoyed relative serenity, peace and harmony until the coming of the lounge,” the petition read.
They said commencement lounge, life unbearable for them,
“Noise pollution that comes from the lounge daily starts from 5:00p.m. to 2:00a.m. of the following day.
“Our perimeter fence is now a comfortable abode for hoodlums carrying out nefarious activities. The smell of Indian hemp, bottle breaking, fighting and snatching of handsets and women handbags are evidence that the lounge is a den where criminals retire,” they alleged. since the of the became
They said an attempt to make peace with the management of the lounge failed as it claimed that it acquired a commercial plot and could operate without limitations.
The owner of the lounge, Emmanuel Otokpa, said the plot was legally acquired for commercial purposes and that he had right to it as the residents have in their houses.
He described the petition as the latest effort by the residents to pull down his business after several failed attempts including a complaint at the Kubwa Divisional Police Command and disconnection of electricity from the government transformer in the area.
He added that his business was a lounge and not a night club as such sounds were trapped within the building. “This is not a night club, it is a lounge and we sometimes close by 12:00a.m.”
“My lawyer is taking it up with them. They have to prove it in court. My business premises is commercial and I have approval for what I built.”
Meanwhile the Public Relations Officer of Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB), Ibrahim Mukhtar, said the board received the petition which has been referred to the Environmental Health and Safety Department for necessary action. A 33-year-old man, Christian Nwokoro, charged with “unnatural offence’’ of attempted sodomy with three minors, has been remanded in prison by a Karmo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja.
Nwokoro, a bricklayer, resides at Karmo village in the Federal Capital Territory.
Although the defendant denied committing the offence, the judge, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq, refused to grant him bail.
Sadiq adjourned the case to July 11 for further hearing.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Mr Zannah Dalhatu, had told the court that one Orlando Peter, also of Karmo village, in company of his 12-yearold son, reported the matter at the Karmo Police Station on June 11.
Dalhatu said Peter complained that sometime in 2016, the defendant lured three male minors with amounts ranging from N50 to N200 to his apartment.
He said the defendant laid on the boys in an attempt to have carnal knowledge of them after rubbing a substance on his private part.
Dalhatu told the court that the offence contravened sections 265 and 247 of the Penal Code. (NAN)