An Abuja Magistrates’ Court sitting at Wuse has ordered a 31-year-old tenant to vacate a property within a week.
Magistrate Farida Ibrahim issued the order last Thursday, September11,2025, after the defendant pleaded not guilty to a charge of criminal intimidation.
Ibrahim also ordered that any fittings the defendant said he installed must remain in the property, but he could file a new case to recover what he had spent.
The magistrate also directed the defendant to sign a written undertaking promising to maintain peace while moving his belongings.
She added that the complainant must grant the defendant access to remove his items from the property.
She then granted him bail in the sum of N1 million with a surety in a similar amount. (NAN)
Earlier, the prosecution counsel, C.C. Okafor, told the court that the complainant, Dr. Zaina Kasaba of Asokoro, reported the matter of criminal intimidation against the defendant at the Garki Police Station.
Okafor said the defendant used a machete and a knife to intimidate Kasaba while she was seeing off her visiting brother.
The prosecutor added that the defendant also threatened to kill the complainant.NAN.
