Landlord Flogged Pastor and Sent him and his Family out of the Apartment

A Lagos landlord has been charged before an Ikeja magistrates’ court in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria for allegedly flogging and ejecting a pastor serving at Christian Pentecostal Mission, CPM, Ajao Estate, Lagos. The pastor’s family members were also chased out of their apartment.


He allegedly flogged the pastor and illegally sent him and his family out of the apartment and since then they have been sleeping outside the house.The landlord, Anthony Diboshi, 46, was arrested by the police and charged along with two of his aides, Bayo Adedapo, 31, and Joshua Ajisegiri, 27, for intimidating Pastor Nicholas Nnubia and ejecting him without due notice.

While narrating his ordeal, Nicholas said the landlord’s wife who travelled out of the country rented out the place to them.
He said barely three months after they moved into the house, the landlord started to fight him and his family members.
He said the landlord told them to pack out because they got the apartment through his estranged wife who rented out the place through an agent.
He said that he showed the receipt to him but the landlord insisted that he must pack out even though the rent had not expired.

We gathered that Diboshi gave him back part of the rent he paid and gave him one month notice to pack out.
The pastor said he pleaded that he should be given at least three months to enable him get another place but Diboshi insisted he must quit on that date.
He said that before the ultimatum he gave expired, Diboshi came to the house with machete and whips and flogged him and chased him and his family out of the house.

The police from SARS were contacted and they arrested the landlord and charged him and his aides to court.
The three defendants, however, pleaded not guilty.
The presiding magistrate, Mrs J. A. Anabor granted them bail in the sum of N100, 000 each with one surety each in like sum.
The matter has been adjourned till 17 Febuary 2012 for mention.