A 34-year-old security guard, Ibrahim Buba, was arraigned in a Life Camp Chief Magistrates’ Court, Abuja for allegedly threatening to kill his former boss.

The police charged Buba of Shara Maishayi Galadimawa Abuja, with criminal intimidation and he pleaded not guilty to the charge levelled against him.

The Police Prosecutor, Johnson Ayah, told the Court that the complainant, Ugopeace Udo of Lord Lugard St. Asokoro reported the matter at the Galadimawa Police Station on April 11.

Mr Ayah said that sometime in 2020 before COVID- 19, the defendant pleaded to the complainant to offer him a job.

He said the complainant’s contractor, one Tochukwu surname unknown, employed the defendant as mason.

He told the court that after some years, the defendant started sending threatening messages to the complainant that he would kill him and his family.

Mr Ayah said that the defendant claimed that he worked as a security guard for the complainant for two years, but he refused to pay him.

Mr Ayah said that on May 13, Buba and one of his friends now at large, smartly went to the complainant’s compound without his consent but was arrested by the Estate Police officer on duty.

The prosecutor said that during the police investigation, the defendant made a confessional statement admitting sending the complainant death threat messages but could not give a satisfactory account of his actions.

Mr Ayah said the offence contravened the provision of Section 396 of the Penal Code.

The Magistrate, Hauwa Aboki, admitted the defendant to bail of N500,000 and two sureties in like sum.

Ms Aboki ordered that the sureties must reside within the court’s jurisdiction and produce reliable means of identification.

She adjourned the matter until May 26 for hearing. 

(NAN)