Emem Asuquo

Two lovers, Emem Asuquo and Olugbenga Yakubu, have been remanded in
 prison by a Tinubu Magistrate’s Court sitting on Lagos Island for alleged public
 disturbance.
They were arraigned on Wednesday on four counts of assault and conduct
 likely to cause breach of the peace before Magistrate A.A. Adefulire.
PUNCH Metro learnt that an altercation broke out after 31-year-old 
Asuquo insisted that Yakubu, 51, use a condom before having sex with her, 
but he reportedly declined the request.

They were said to have exchanged phone numbers and promised to meet 
each other later in the night.PUNCH Metro learnt that Yakubu, while driving 
along the Lekki-Epe Expressway at about 7pm on July 6, had offered Asuquo, 
who was going towards Lakowe in Ibeju-Lekki, a ride.
Yakubu, a civil servant, was said to have picked up the hairdresser at her
 home in Ajah around 2am the next day and took her to his house on Adeyinka 
Oyekan Street, Abraham Adesanya Estate, Ajah.
“On getting to his house, he entertained me after which we went inside 
his room. He said he wanted me to have sex with him. I told him I would
 collect N30,000 and he agreed. I asked him to use a condom but he said
 he did not have one. So, I told him to take me back home in his car,” 
Asuquo said.
She explained that the man dropped her off at VGC Roundabout, saying
 he did not have enough fuel in his car.
She said she called a taxi driver to pick her up from the area.
It was learnt that a scuffle ensued when she requested Yakubu to wait
 for her until the taxi driver arrived for fear of being robbed.
“When he refused, I removed his car key. He was beating me when the
 taxi driver and two others arrived and they intervened. He injured me in the 
eye. I also used a stone to smash the windscreen of his car,” she added.
Our correspondent learnt that Yakubu later reported the incident at the Ajah 
Police Division, and Asuquo was arrested.
 Yakubu, in his statement to the police, said Asuquo had called the driver 
and other occupants of the taxi to beat him up, adding that he sustained injuries.
He said, “She followed me to my house, but refused to make love with me 
after buying her drinks. At a point, she started screaming that I should take 
her back to her house. When we got to the roundabout, she removed my car
 key and held my shirt. Two men and a lady she called came in a Golf car and
 started beating me.
“I held Asuquo by the hair and began punching her while the two men did 
same to me. In the end, they injured me and broke the windscreen of my car.”
A police prosecutor, Inspector Philip Osijale, subsequently arraigned the duo 
before the Tinubu Magistrate’s Court on four counts of assault and breach of the
 public peace.
Osijale told the court that the charges contravened sections 54, 171, 349 
and 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
The charges read in part, “That you, Emem Asuquo, and others now at large on
 July 7, 2016, at about 3.30am at VGC Roundabout, Ajah, in the Lagos 
Magisterial District, did willfully damage the windscreen of one unregistered 
Carina E with a stone.
“That you, Olugbenga Yakubu, on the same date, time and place, in the
 aforementioned magisterial district, did unlawfully assault one Emem Asuquo
 by hitting her with a fist blow in her left eye, which did her harm, thereby
 committing an offence punishable under Section 171 of the Criminal Law
 of Lagos State, 2011.”
The defendants pleaded not guilty to the counts.
The magistrate, Adefulire, admitted Asuquo to bail in the sum of N500,000 
with one surety, while Yakubu was admitted to bail in the sum of N200,000
 with a surety in like sum.
Adefulire held that they should be kept in prison until they perfect their 
bail conditions.