The Yusufs, who are facing
two charges of conspiracy and attempted murder, were alleged to have inserted
needles in the snack before giving them to beggars.
Fifty-years-old Muslim
cleric, Mohammed Yusuf, and daughter, Salamat, 18, were on Tuesday arraigned at
a Tinubu Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for allegedly distributing poisoned
‘akara’, a local snack, to beggars.
The Prosecuting State
Counsel, Barr. Ben Ekundayo, told the court that the defendants committed the
offences on August 5 at about 2pm at Offin Street, Balogun, Lagos Island.
He alleged that the man and
his daughter carried out the act with intent to endanger the lives of the
beggars.
“The Muslim cleric sent his
daughter to give the beggars, near the mosque, the bean-cakes, but when one of
them (the beggars) opened the bean-cake, he found needles in the middle.“Other
beggars were notified; one of them, who knew the daughter and the school where
she worked, led them there and she was apprehended.“She also led them to her father,”
Ekundayo said.
The defendants pleaded not
guilty to the charges.
The Magistrate, Mr Ade
Adefulire, admitted the defendants to bail in the sum of N500, 000, with two
sureties each in like sum.
He said that sureties must
be blood relations and account owners with a deposit of N100, 000 in their bank
accounts.
Adefulire adjourned the
case to September 29.
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