A 39 year old trader in Ebute Meta, Lagos Gordon Daniel, has been charged to a Magistrates’ Court for allegedly pouring a poisonous substance in a neighbour’s pot of soup. He is being tried for attempted murder.
The suspected poisonous substance, “Snipper” is a gammalin 20-based liquid insecticide that is common in Nigeria for ridding homes of all insects and small rodents.
The Police Prosecutor, Coupler Hafsat Ajibode said that the offence was committed at No. 7, Baale Ayetoro St., Ajegunle, Lagos on August 17 this year at about 10.00 a.m.
Ajibode told the court that the accused had attempted to kill his neighbor by pouring the substance in her pot of soup and that the offence contravened Section 228 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
When the charge was read to the accused, he pleaded not guilty.
The Magistrate, Mrs. K.A. Ariyo, granted the accused bail in the sum of N500,000, with two sureties in like sum.
Ariyo ordered that one of the sureties must be a blood relation of the accused and must show proof of tax payment to the State Government.
The case was adjourned to October 11 for receipt of advice from the office of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP). [myad]
