A Lagos magistrate, Mrs. Adeola Adedayo, has raised the alarm over an alleged threat to her life by two suspects, who were to be tried before her.‎
It was gathered that the suspects, Sulaiman Sanusi and Kehinde Sanusi, were in court for alleged unlawful possession of firearms.
The suspects, who are children of the late Lagos business mogul, Chief Abdul-Rasak Sanusi, are being prosecuted by the police, which also accused them of treating the court with contempt.
Adedayo, who sits at the Igbosere Magistrate's Court on the Lagos Island, raised the alarm at the resumed proceeding on Monday that she had received letters delivered to her residence from the suspects, who had yet to be arraigned.

The magistrate said she was disturbed that the suspects knew her house and had detailed her personal life in the letter.
"I feel very threatened. Let the world know about it so that if anything happens to me and any member of my family the whole world will know who to hold.
"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 letters 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 daily," the magistrate said.

She went further to threaten the lawyer to the Sanusi brothers, Gbolu Agbaje-Akadiri, with contempt of the court, saying she was not pleased with the counsel's disposition to the matter.
The magistrate said, "I want the world to know about the threat, so that I will not be killed like others who have been killed in the past.
"If anything happens to me people will know who to hold responsible."

In the charge marked A/143/2014 instituted by the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Suleimon, was accused of unlawful possession of firearms.
The police insisted that the Sanusi siblings had acted contrary to Section 104 (1) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011 and Section 4 of the Nigerian Firearms Act.
The charge, it was learnt, was a fallout of a suit instituted in 2002 by Suleimon and two other of his siblings against three of their siblings, who were appointed by their late father as the executors of his estate.
The suit marked ID/904M/2002 had as its plaintiffs Suleimon, Risikat Olusanya and Ganiyat Sanusi.
Joined as respondents 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."
The court also ordered the executors (respondents) to resume joint management of the estate in line with the will of their late father executed by the late F.R.A. Williams (SAN).
The executors were ordered to return to the court to submit a report of stewardship on the estate.
But they are now alleging that since the court order was given in 2006, the first applicant, had not complied by surrendering all the documents in relation to the estate, as directed by the court.

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