The police in Lagos state have arraigned a 45-year-old man identified as Kayode Abiodun before an Ikorodu Magistrate’s Court for allegedly beating up his mother.
The prosecutor, Inspector Ahmed Sanni, told the court that Abiodun beat his mother up on September 5, at her residence at No 3, Omobowale Olowu Close, in Igbogbo area of Ikorodu. Sanni said Abiodun assaulted his mother, Mrs Ebun-Oluwa Abiodun by hitting her in the face several times with his fist, causing her injury. The prosecutor told the court that Abiodun also conducted himself in a manner likely to breach the peace by shouting on his mother.
Sanni also told the court that while the defendant was beating his mother, he wilfully damaged one pair of eye glasses valued N25,000 and one Itel phone valued N10,000. He also damaged one radio set valued at N30,000, one refrigerator, valued N66,500 and five kegs valued N3,500.
The presiding magistrate, Mrs T.A. Shotobi, granted Abiodun bail in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties in like sum. Shotobi ruled that one of the sureties must be a blood relation of the defendant