Police have charged 29-year-old trader, Sodiq Akinpelu, Lagos for allegedly intimidating a woman to strip naked over a missing phone.
The defendant, who lives in Jakande Market in Ikosi-Ketu area of Lagos, faces two counts of conspiracy and a breach of peace.
The prosecutor, Insp. Lucky Ihiehie told the Ogudu Magistrates’ Court, that the defendant and some others still at large, committed the offences at Jakande Market, Ketu, on May 11, at about 7.11p.m.
He alleged that the defendant, within the market area, allegedly breached public peace when he intimidated, another trader, Yemisi Oladeinu, 37, in the market.
He told the court that the complainant had gone from shop to shop in search of her missing children in the market, when the defendant raised the alarm that she had stolen a phone from his shop.
“For that act, they gathered people who started telling her to remove her clothes saying she hid the phone in her pant else they would beat her up.
“She had to comply with them to avoid jungle justice and the defendant stripped her totally naked in public.
“Having stripped her naked, they did not find the phone on her but instead discovered the phone was with one of his boys,” the prosecutor said.
The magistrate adjourned the case until June 2, for mention.(NAN)