Another Facebook Lover Charged To Court In Lagos For Attempted Murder


 A 26-year-old man, who allegedly pushed down his Facebook lover from a multi-storey building due to a disagreement over sex was Friday arraigned in Lagos.
The accused, Arthur Obiora is facing a three-count charge of threat to life, attempted rape and attempt to cause bodily harm at a Tinubu Magistrates’ Court.
The prosecutor, A. C. Orji (an Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP), told the court that Obiora met Nkiruka Akabuogu on Facebook  (a social media network) and invited her to a clubhouse in Apapa, where they had drinks.
The prosecutor said the pair later moved to Obiora’s house at Block 10, Flat 317, 1004 Housing Estate, Victoria Island, Lagos.
Orji said Obiora, who claimed to be an unemployed graduate of Igbinedion University, Okada in Edo State and the Centennial College, Ontario in Canada, shut all the doors in the apartment and demanded to have sex with Akabuogu.
“This was after he had smoked some wraps of Indian hemp. He tried to rape her and threatened to kill her with a bottle of beer.
“The girl, fearing for her life, then jumped down from the third floor of the high/rise building,” Orji said.
The prosecutor said that the incident happened about 3am. on October 31, this year.
“The girl was discovered lying unconscious in a pool of her own blood about 30 minutes later by the security men in the premises, who then reported it to the police.
“The police took the girl to a hospital and after she regained consciousness, obtained her statement,” Orji said.
He continued: “This case highlights one of the major problems of the social media. The young lady went to visit someone she doesn’t know.
“She met the defendant on Facebook and they had been chatting until October 30.”
Orji said that the offences contravened Sections 56 (A), 260 and 404 (1) of the Criminal Laws of Lagos 2011.
The Magistrate, Mr. Martins Owumi, granted the accused bail in the sum of N200,000, with two sureties in like sum.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 21-year-old Nkiruka sustained multiple injuries, including a fractured pelvis, and is undergoing treatment at the General Hospital, Marina, Lagos, following the incident.
Nkiruka, a Linguistics student of the University of Lagos, had told NAN on her hospital bed that she went clubbing with the young man she met on Facebook a week earlier and ended up in his family home at 1004 Estate, Victoria Island, Lagos.
She noted that the young man had earlier talked about sex on phone prior to the outing, but she told him she was menstruating.
Nkiruka said that on getting to the house, the man tore her dress and tried to rape her and thereafter pushed her down from the third floor of the building, because of her refusal to have sex with him.
But the mother of the young man, who was at home on the night of the incident, told NAN that she was not aware of what happened.
She claimed she slept around 10 pm., while the disagreement between the pair started much later.
The magistrate adjourned the case to November 30, this year.
It would be recalled that another young lady, Cynthia Osokogu, met her death in the hands of Facebook friends, who killed her in a hotel Festac area of Lagos.
The matter is still in court.


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Chris Kehinde Nwandu is the Editor In Chief of CKNNEWS || He is a Law graduate and an Alumnus of Lagos State University, Lead City University Ibadan and Nigerian Institute Of Journalism || With over 2 decades practice in Journalism, PR and Advertising, he is a member of several Professional bodies within and outside Nigeria || Member: Institute Of Chartered Arbitrators ( UK ) || Member : Institute of Chartered Mediators And Conciliation || Member : Nigerian Institute Of Public Relations || Member : Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria || Fellow : Institute of Personality Development And Customer Relationship Management || Member and Chairman Board Of Trustees: Guild Of Professional Bloggers of Nigeria

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