A man, Sunday Ishiaku, who was jilted by his lover was, yesterday, arraigned before an Ijeshatedo Chief Magistrate’s Court over alleged attempt to set his lover’s apartment ablaze for refusing to sleep with him during their three-year relationship. Ishiaku, who is facing a two-count charge of breach of public peace and attempted arson preferred against him by the police, was docked before Magistrate Abegunde Davis. according to vanguard The defendant,
an indigene of Borno State, was alleged to have carried a keg of petrol to the house of the said lover, Kadijat Saga, a Togolese, at 14, Bamishile Street, Idi-Araba, with the intention to burn her property before neighbours intervened and handed him over to the police.
The defendant claimed that Saga refused to sleep with him after collecting his money for the three years they were together. The complainant, on her part, said she did not consider Ishiaku as her lover and was only accommodating him in her house without attaching anything to their relationship.
She said she was surprised when her neighbour called her on phone to inform her that the defendant broke into her room with the intention of setting it ablaze.
Ishiaku pleaded not guilty to the charges, even as the complainant informed the court that she would want to settle the matter out of court.
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