A Lagos landlord has been charged before
an Ikeja magistrates’ court in Lagos State,
Southwest Nigeria for allegedly flogging and
ejecting a pastor serving at Christian
Pentecostal Mission, CPM, Ajao Estate, Lagos.
The pastor’s family members were also
chased out of their apartmen.
He allegedly flogged the pastor and illegally
sent him and his family out of the apartment
and since then they have been sleeping
outside the house.
The landlord, Anthony Diboshi, 46, was
arrested by the police and charged along
with two of his aides, Bayo Adedapo, 31,
and Joshua Ajisegiri, 27, for intimidating
Pastor Nicholas Nnubia and ejecting him
without due notice.
While narrating his ordeal, Nicholas said the
landlord’s wife who travelled out of the
country rented out the place to them.
He said barely three months after they
moved into the house, the landlord started
to fight him and his family members.
He said the landlord told them to pack out
because they got the apartment through his
estranged wife who rented out the place
through an agent.
He said that he showed the receipt to him
but the landlord insisted that he must pack
out even though the rent had not expired.
Also that Diboshi gave him
back part of the rent he paid and gave him
one month notice to pack out.
The pastor said he pleaded that he should
be given at least three months to enable him
get another place but Diboshi insisted he
must quit on that date.
He said that before the ultimatum he gave
expired, Diboshi came to the house with
machete and whips and flogged him and
chased him and his family out of the house.
The police from SARS were contacted and
they arrested the landlord and charged him
and his aides to court.
The three defendants, however, pleaded not
guilty.
The presiding magistrate, Mrs J. A. Anabor
granted them bail in the sum of N100, 000
each with one surety each in like sum.
The matter has been adjourned till 17
Febuary 2012 for mention.
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