Lawyer accuses lover of robbery for turning down marriage proposal

A 59-year-old lawyer has dragged his 27-year-old lover to the police for refusing to marry him.
Policemen at Ikotun Police Station in Lagos State were said to have watched as the mini drama between Barrister E. Eniola and his lady lover, simply identified as Kemi, played out.
Eniola told the police that Kemi assaulted, stole from him and robbed him.
Eyewitnesses claimed that two white envelopes filled with money were given out by the lawyer to make the policemen to get cracking, since it was clear that there was nothing criminal about a girl turning down a marriage proposal.
Policemen had gone to the home of the lady and confiscated her DSTV, pressing iron, generating set, Black Berry phone, sewing machines, among other items.
These were items the lawyer bought for the girl while the going was good two years ago.
Not quite satisfied with collecting the items he bought, the lawyer told police to charge the matter to court.
News of the arrest and confiscation of the girl’s property soon filtered into the ears of the Area M Commander, who furiously ordered the Investigating Police Officer and the Divisional Crime Officer, who had ordered for the girl’s property to be confiscated, to report to his office.
The IPO claimed she was following the order of the DCO, while the DCO insisted that he was investigating a ‘fraud’ case against Kemi. Apparently, Kemi collecting several sums of money from lawyer and then not marrying him was termed as fraud.
Chewing them to bits, the Area Commander told them that it was a civil matter, not a criminal one and as such had nothing to do with police.
The Area Commander invited the lovers and before him the lawyer explained that for two years he had been under the impression that kemi would marry him.
In fact, he insisted that Kemi promised to marry him and since then he had been paying her school fees at the Lagos State University and even bought her three sewing machines since she was also learning sewing.
Eniola, a divorcee, said he became worried after Kemi shifted their marriage introduction thrice.
But in June, this year, Kemi told him that she would not marry him.
Since then, they had been going to the police station until this July when their IPO travelled and another person handled the case.
The case soon became a criminal matter.
Trying to mend broken fences, the Area Commander told Eniola to accept that Kemi had played a fast one on him and also to realize that Kemi does not love him.
Eniola however insisted that Kemi must pay him N700,000, which was the amount his clients remitted into her account.
The money was to be for their marriage introduction, he said.
But Kemi denied knowing what the lawyer was talking about. According to her, all money paid into her account by Eniola’s clients were paid to different accounts of Eniola’s children by her, on the instruction of Eniola.
According to Kemi, there was no time she ever agreed she would marry Eniola.
She said the situation turned nasty after Eniola checked her phone and got angry because she did not save his name with ‘baby.’
The case continues.