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Court orders tenant to vacate property in one week

The magistrate said that the defendant should write an undertaking promising to maintain peace while moving his belongings.

• September 11, 2025
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A Wuse Magistrates’ Court sitting in the Federal Capital Territory on Thursday ordered a 31-year-old tenant to vacate a property within a week.

Magistrate Farida Ibrahim gave the order after the defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge of criminal intimidation against him.

Ibrahim also ordered that the fittings of the property which the defendant said he made must be left untouched, adding that he could file a new case to recover what he spent.

The magistrate said that the defendant should write an undertaking promising to maintain peace while moving his belongings.

She said that the nominal complainant should also give the defendant access to move his belongings from her property.

She therefore granted him bail in the sum of N1 million with a surety in like sum.

Earlier, the Prosecution counsel, C. C. Okafor, told the court that the nominal complainant, Dr Zaina. Kasaba of Jesse Jackson Street, Asokoro reported the matter of criminal intimidation against the defendant at the Garki Police Station.

She said that the defendant used a cutlass and a knife to intimidate her when she was seeing off her brother who visited her.

Ms Okafor added that the defendant also threatened to kill the nominal complainant.

(NAN)

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