Man Docked For Beating Wife Over Late Meal

A man has been summoned before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates' Court for

professedly beating his significant other over late readiness of dinner.

Monday Usifo (45), an engineer who lives at No.19, Emmanuel St., Ketu

Alapere, a suburb of Lagos is being striven for assault.

The prosecutor, Sgt. Rapheal Donny, told the court that the offense was

submitted on April 17 at the accused residence.

Donny said that the accused asserted that his wife , Blessing, did not

set up his sustenance on time, and turned to beating her.


“The accused hatchet his wife with a cutlass on the head, which led her
to bleeding profusely.
“If not for the intervention of the neighbours, who rushed the victim to
the hospital, it would have been another story entirely,” he said.

The offense contradicted Section 171 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State,

2011.

The charged, in any case, pleaded not guilty.

The Chief Magistrate, Mr Tajudeen Elias, allowed the blamed safeguard in the

whole of N100,000 with one surety in like aggregate.

He dismissed the case till July 20 for notice.