Abuja: Cleaner granted N200,000 bail over alleged assault on street vendor

A 32-year-old cleaner, Matthew Ubabuike, was on Monday docked in a Chief Magistrates’ Court in Wuse, Abuja, for allegedly assaulting a street vendor, popularly known as a Mai Shayi.

The police charged Ubabuike with criminal intimidation, force and assault. He, however, pleaded not guilty.

The Prosecution Counsel, Festus Ajayi, told the court that the complainant Mr Abubakar Adamu, reported the matter at the Maitama Police Station on July 29.

Ajayi told the court that the defendant threw a stone at the complainant and also slapped the complainant and threatened to kill him on July 26 when he visited his business stand to order Indomie Noodles.

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The police said that the offence contravened the provisions of Sections 397 and 265 of the Penal Code.

Magistrate Hafsat Amir admitted the defendant to bail in the sum of N200,000 with one surety in like sum; she said the surety must reside within the court’s jurisdiction.

She ordered that the surety must provide all means of identification and adjourned the matter until Aug. 12 for trial 

(NAN)