Man lands in prison for slapping wife’s friend

A 44-year-old man, Oluokun Olarewaju, is now cooling his heels in police custody for allegedly slapping his wife’s friend, after an Ejigbo Magistrate’s court in Lagos ordered that he be remanded.

Olanrewaju allegedly committed the crime at 84, Rasaki Tijani Street, Ikotun, where he lives with his family when he slapped Miss Christiana Duntoye (the wife’s friend) who resides at 75 of same street, who told his wife that she saw him with another woman.

When the charge was read to the accused before Magistrate A. A. Fashola, he pleaded not guilty.

The magistrate granted the accused N50,000 bail, with one surety in like sum, but he was remanded in Kirikiri Prison pending perfection of his bail conditions.

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Trouble started when Miss Christiana told her friend about her husband’s extra marital affair.

Olarewaju’s wife confronted him and accused him of seeing a woman and for also changing his attitude at home.

Olarewaju pressured his wife to reveal the source of her information and she caved in when his wife allegedly told him that her friend, Christiana, spilled the beans on him.

Unfortunately for Christiana, she came visiting during one of the Olarewaju’s now constant quarrels. She was confronted by the accused who allegedly slapped her and she was also asked to leave his house for trying to tear his marriage apart.

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