Police Arraign Popular Spare Parts dealer, Bebex, For Assault

Lagos State Police Command, on Wednesday, arraigned a spare parts dealer, Ebube Eddy, also known as Bebex, before a Lagos Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ogba on three counts of conduct likely to cause breach of peace, indecent assault, and assault.

37-year-old Eddy was arraigned alongside one 27-year-old Ali Musa before Magistrate Olufunmilayo Odubayo at Samuel Ilori Court House, Ogba, for assaulting a housewife identified as Omolara James, at Ladipo Market in Mushin.

The charge read, “That you, Ebube Eddy and Ali Musa, on April 20 around 8 pm at Mercedes Benz Line, Ladipo Market, Mushin Lagos, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did conspire among yourselves to commit felony wit: conduct likely to cause a breach of peace and assault and thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 411 of the criminal law of Lagos State, 2015.

“That you, Ebube Eddy, on the same day, time, and place at the aforesaid magisterial district did conduct yourself in a manner to cause a breach of peace by making moves to indecently assault one Omolara James, 26, by wanting to touch her breast and thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 168(d) of the Lagos Criminal Law, 2015.

“That you, Ali Musa, on the same day, time, and place at the aforesaid magisterial district did assault one Omolara James by slapping her on her face thereby committing an offence contrary to Section 170 and punishable under Section 172 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.”

The defendants pleaded not guilty when the charges were read to them.

Magistrate Odubayo granted both defendants bail in the sum of N100,000 each with two reliable sureties who must be within the Court’s jurisdiction and have about 15 years of working experience with the Lagos State Government. However, she ordered that they should be remanded in a correctional centre pending when they meet their bail conditions.

The Magistrate then adjourned the case till May 15, 2023.

It would be recalled that James Omolara recorded a video alleging that Bebex ordered his boy to slap her after she refused his sexual advances. Shortly after, she recorded another video dismissing the allegation she initially made.

Following the sensation the matter created, the State Commissioner of Police, CP Idowu Owohunwa, met with those involved on Tuesday and ordered that the case should be charged to Court after concluding that there was indeed a case to answer.