By Damilola Adekoya
BY
Damilola Adekoya
A Lebanese, Bilal Fahs, was recently,
charged before an Ikeja Magistrates court for allegedly robbing and killing one
35-year-old Ali Sani.
Sani,
who was a bureau de change operator, was said to have been killed by Fahs and
his partners, on April 30.
The prosecutor, ASP Nicholas Atunmoye, told
the court that the accused had tricked the deceased into a hotel room at 98
Marine Road, Apapa, Lagos on the grounds that he wanted to change money.
Atunmonye said Fahs, with his accomplices had
stabbed Sani with knife, broken pieces of glasses and a stick.
The prosecutor also told the court that the
defendant was apprehended when he was seen outside the hotel room with
bloodstains on his clothing.
Atunmonye said that the offences contravene
Sections 5 (b), 1 (2) (A) (B) of Robbery and Firearms (Special Provision) Act,
Cap. 398 Vol. XXII, Laws of the Federation 2003 as amended. And that the
alleged offence of unlawful killing, contradicted Section 221 of the Criminal
Law of Lagos, 2011 The magistrate, Mrs
J.A. Anabor, adjourned the matter to July 2, for the Directorate of Public
Prosecution’s advice.
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