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A Senior Magistrates’ Court sitting in Kano on Tuesday remanded a 19-year-old man, one Mr Tanzilu Rabiu, in a Correctional Centre for allegedly defiling an eight-year-old girl.
The Senior Magistrate, Mrs Aisha Muhammad-Yahaya, who did not take the plea of Rabiu ordered that the case file should be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions for advice.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Muhammad-Yahaya adjourned the case until September 29th for mention.
The defendant, who resides at Chiromawa Village in Garun Malam Local Government Area of Kano State, is facing a count charge of rape.
Earlier, the Prosecutor, Mr M. A. Abdulrahman, told the court that the man committed the offence on June 29th, at 12 p.m. at Garun Malam Local Government, Kano.
Abdulrahman said that the man deceived and lured the girl to his room and forcefully had carnal knowledge of her.
He said that the offence contravened the Penal Code of Kano State.
Similarly, a housewife, Racheal Oloche, on Tuesday, August 31st appeared in a Gwagwalada Upper Area Court for allegedly threatening to kill a preacher.
The police charged Oloche who lives in Angwan Dodo Gwagwalada, Abuja with two counts of criminal conspiracy and intimidation.
The Prosecution Counsel, Dabo Yakubu, told the court that the complainant, Collins Chidozie, who lives in Kwali, FCT, reported the matter at the police station on March 12th.
Yakubu said that the defendant and three others, at large, on March 11th 2021 jointly conspired with one Baba Saidu and threatened to kill the complainant at the Briejina Hotel Gwagwalada, FCT.
He said that in the process of struggling with them, one locally made pistol fell from Saidu’s side pockets.
The offence, he said, contravened the provision of sections 97 and 397 of the Penal Code.
The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The Defence Counsel, J.O. Obika prayed the court to grant his client bail in most liberal terms, citing Sections 158 and 162 of Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA), to buttress his claims for bail.
The Judge, Sani Umar admitted the defendant to a N100,000 bail with one reasonable surety in like sum.
Umar ordered that the surety must reside within the court’s jurisdiction and the address must be verified by the staff of the court.
He said that the surety must present a photocopy of means of identification and two recent passports or in default, the defendant should be remanded in Suleja Correctional Centre.
Umar adjourned the case until September 2nd for hearing.