A 33-year-old man, Taiye Jimoh, has appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stoning and pursuing some bank workers and customers with a nailed plank.
Jimoh is being tried for alleged breach of the peace, intent to commit felony and threat to life.
According to Inspector George Nwosu, the accused committed the offence between October 15 and November 8 at Iju, Lagos.
He said the accused entered into the premises of a branch of Union Bank PLC with the intent to commit felony.
“The accused was found wandering for an illegal and disorderly purpose,” he said.
Nwosu said the accused intimidated the bank’s workers and customers by throwing stones and pursuing them with a nailed-plank.
“The accused was always in the bank’s premises in the past three weeks; threatening the staff and customers with stones and a nailed-plank on it.
“Whenever he was asked to leave as he may be a spy who had come to monitor the bank’s activities, he would turn violent.
“The accused was neither a customer nor was he operating an account with the bank,” he said.
The prosecutor said the offence contravened Sections 51,166 and 306 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Section 306(1) prescribes five years’ jail term for offenders.
The accused pleaded not guilty and was granted N100,000 bail with two sureties in the like sum.
Magistrate A.A. Adesanya adjourned the case.
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