A Lagos magistrate, Mrs. Adeola
Adedayo, has raised the alarm over an alleged threat to her life by two
suspects, who were to be tried before her.
It was gathered that the suspects,
Sulaiman Sanusi and Kehinde Sanusi, were in court for alleged unlawful
possession of firearms.
The suspects, who are children of
the late Lagos business mogul, Chief Abdul-Rasak Sanusi, are being prosecuted
by the police, which also accused them of treating the court with contempt.
Adedayo, who sits at the Igbosere
Magistrate’s Court on the Lagos Island, raised the alarm at the resumed
proceeding on Monday that she had received letters delivered to her residence
from the suspects, who had yet to be arraigned.
The magistrate said she was
disturbed that the suspects knew her house and had detailed her personal life
in the letter.
“I feel very threatened. Let the
world know about it so that if anything happens to me and any member of my
family the whole world will know who to hold.
“I don’t know why a defendant
should know my house. My life is at risk.
“Somebody is alleged to be in
possession of firearms and he wrote letters to threaten my life, analysing my
marital status, my family background and where I live, who I live with and how
I move in and move out daily,” the magistrate said.
She went further to threaten the
lawyer to the Sanusi brothers, Gbolu Agbaje-Akadiri, with contempt of the
court, saying she was not pleased with the counsel’s disposition to the matter.
“I want the world to know about
the threat, so that I will not be killed like others who have been killed in
the past. If anything happens to me people will know who to hold responsible,”
she said.
Punch
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