After alleging threat to her life, a Lagos magistrate, Mrs. Adeola Adedayo, has withdrawn from the case of two brothers – Sulaiman Sanusi and Kehinde Sanusi – accused by the police of being in possession of illegal firearms and contempt of court.

The case of the two brothers, who have yet to be arraigned, had been adjourned till Monday but the suit could not go on as it was learnt that it had been transferred to a new magistrate, Mr. P. A. Adekomaya.

Adekomaya, it was learnt, had also adjourned the case till July 21, 2015.

The case had taken a controversial turn after Adedayo raised the alarm in the open court on April 13, 2015, alleging that the Sanusi brothers had been threatening her life.

The magistrate said she was disturbed that the suspects had known her residence and had detailed her personal life in various letters, which she claimed the suspects had written and delivered to her house.

“I don’t know why a defendant should know my house; my life is at risk. Somebody is alleged to be in possession of firearms and he wrote petitions to threaten my life, analysing my marital status, my family background and where I live, who I live with and how I move in and move out every day,” Adedayo had cried out.

Sulaiman and Kehinde, both children of the late Lagos business mogul, Chief Abdul-Rasak Sanusi, had in turn petitioned the Lagos State Chief Judge, Justice Olufunmilayo Atilade, asking that their case be re-assigned for fear of bias.

In the charge instituted by the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Sulaiman and Kehinde were accused of violating Section 104 (1) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011 and Section 4 of the Nigerian Firearms Act.

It was, however, learnt that the charge was an offshoot of a suit instituted in 2002 by Sulaiman and two of his siblings against three other siblings, who were appointed by their late father as the executors of his estate.

The suit marked ID/904M/2002 had as plaintiffs Sulaiman, Risikat Olusanya and Ganiyat Sanusi.

Joined as respondents in the suit were the appointed executors of the Sanusi’s estate, Abdul-Mojeed Sanusi, Falilat Sanusi-Lawal and Bilikisu Sanusi.

In the said suit, the claimants had accused the respondents of mismanaging their late father’s estate.

But ruling on the suit, Justice Williams-Dawodu had held that “the first applicant (Suleimon) should produce or surrender all documents in his custody to the estate.”

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