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  • Teenager ‘stabs’ pedestrian

    A 19-year-old girl, Sekinat Adebayo, yesterday appeared before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for conspiring with another person now at large to “stab a pedestrian with a broken bottle.”

    Adebayo of 10, Hassan Street, Agility in Mile 12, Lagos State, is facing trial for conspiracy, assault and stealing.

    Prosecuting Inspector Raji Akeem said the offence was committed on August 29 at Agidingbi, Ikeja.

    Akeem said the accused and her accomplice, waylaid the complainant, Mr Edet Idiong, on his way home.

    “They stabbed Idiong on one of his shoulders, stole his N15,000 and collected the polythene bag he was holding which contained a paint of rice, valued at N1,300.

    “Thereafter, they ran away while the complainant raised the alarm, “he said.

    The prosecutor said the complainant was found in a pool of his blood and was rescued by some passersby.

    “The accused was apprehended while the other accomplice escaped, “he said.

    The prosecutor said the offence contravened Sections 173, 287 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

    The accused pleaded not guilty.

    Chief Magistrate Jadesola Adeyemi-Ajayi granted her N50,000 bail with two sureties in the like sum.

    The case continues on October 8.

  • Teenager ‘steals roommate’s N918,000 properties after drugging her’

    A teenager, Divine Giwa, has been brought before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court for allegedly drugged her roommate, Chioma Daniels, before stealing her money and properties valued at N918,000,.

    Giwa, 19, from Rivers State, was arraigned by the Ilasan Police Division, Lekki, on a one-count charge of stealing, before M.F. Onanusi.

    Prosecuting counsel Ehizoba Godspower said the incident occurred last September in the complainant’s home at Ajose Street, Ilasan in Lekki.

    He said in March 2017, at an eatery in Lekki, a friend begged the complainant to accommodate Giwa pending when she would raise money to rent a house.

    Godspower said: “They lived peacefully from March till one morning in September 2017, when the complainant told the defendant to prepare tea for both of them. The complainant drank the tea, not knowing it had been laced with sleeping drug. It put her to sleep from 7am till around 10pm in the night. When she woke up, the defendant had fled with her money and properties.

    “The complainant later sighted the suspect at Lekki in June 2018. She raised the alarm following which passers-by apprehended the defendant.”

    The court heard that the stolen items were valued at N918,000.

    They are three Ecolac bags containing clothes valued at N200,000, 30 pieces of shoes valued at N150,000, jewellery valued, at N100,000, Zara make-up valued at N50,000, and three pieces of human hair wigs valued at N250,000.

    Others are eye glasses valued at N20,000, one Gionee smartphone valued at N100,000 and N48,000 cash.

    Giwa pleaded not guilty.

    Magistrate Onanusi granted her N200,000 bail with one surety in the like sum.

    The case continues on August 1.

  • Teenager drugs roommate with tea, steals 918,000 properties

    A teenager, Divine Giwa, who allegedly drugged her roommate, Chioma Daniels, before stealing her cash and properties valued at N918,000, was on Tuesday brought before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos.

    Giwa, 19, from Rivers State, was arraigned by the Ilasan Police Division, Lekki, on a one-count charge of stealing, marked NO T/38/2018, before M.F. Onanusi.

    Prosecuting counsel Ehizoba Godspower said the alleged incident occurred last September in the complainant’s home at Ajose Street, Ilasan in Lekki.

    He said in March 2017, at an eatery in Lekki, a friend begged the complainant to accommodate Giwa pending when she would be able to raise money to rent a place of her own.

    “They lived peacefully from March till one morning in September 2017, when the complainant told the defendant to prepare tea for both of them to drink.

    “The complainant drank the tea, not knowing it had been laced with a sleeping drug. It put her to sleep from 7am till around 10pm in the night. When she woke up, the defendant had fled with her money and properties.

    “The complainant later sighted the suspect at Lekki in June 2018. She raised the alarm following which passers-by helped apprehend the defendant.”

    The court heard that the stolen items were valued N918,000.

    They are: Three Ecolac bags containing clothes valued at N200,000, 30 pieces of shoes valued at N150,000.00, jewellery valued at N100,000.00, Zara make-up valued at N50,000.00, and three pieces of human hair wigs valued at N250,000.

    Others are eye glasses valued at N20,000, one Gionee smartphone valued at N100,000 and N48,000 cash.

    According to the prosecutor, the offence contravened Section 287 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

    Giwa, pleaded not guilty.

    Magistrate Onanusi granted her N200,000 bail with one surety in the like sum.

    The case continues on August 1.

  • LG poll: Ajimobi laments killing of teenage girl

    Gov.  Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State  on Saturday  condemned the resurgence of the cult war in Idi-Oro and Ayeye areas of Ibadan North West Local Government Area which  claimed the life of a teenage girl  on Saturday.

    A statement by the Special Adviser, Communication and Strategy to the Governor, Mr  Bolaji Tunji, said  the governor was pained by the disturbing news, especially coming on the heels of the conduct of the state’s first local government election in 11 years.

    The governor, the statement said,  condoled with the family of the victim and vowed to ensure that the perpetrators are  brought to justice.

    Ajimobi said:  “From the intelligence reports at my disposal,  the perpetrators of this heinous and condemnable crime were the recalcitrant cultists engaging in supremacy battle in Idi Oro and Ayeye areas of Ibadan who are yet to embrace our peace initiative.

    “That they chose to disturb the peace of the neighbourhood on the day Oyo had a very peaceful LG  election across the state is regrettable.

    “ I was told that elections took place successfully in the polling booth closest to the scene of the incident without any hitch before the cultists struck.

    “I want to use this opportunity to condole with the family of the victim for the irredeemable loss. Let me again warn that those bent on scuttling the peace that we have enthroned across the state in the last seven years will live to regret their action.

    “I have directed the security agents to ensure that they fish out the perpetrators of the crime and ensure that they are brought to justice. I want to appeal to the good people of Oyo State to join hands with the government to sustain our hard earned peace.”

    Meanwhile, Ajimobi  has expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the council election  across the state, saying he was highly impressed with the turnout of voters.
    The governor cast his vote at 12:07 pm in company with  his wife, Florence,  at Ward 09, Unit 20, Community Grammar School, Oluyole, Ibadan.

    He said that reports reaching him from 33 local governments and35 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) of the state indicated that the exercise was peaceful, orderly, free and fair.

    The governor expressed confidence that his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC),  would win in all the local governments and LCDAs in the state due to the outstanding performance of his administration in the last seven years.

    Ajimobi said that his administration had enthroned peace and security since its inception, thus erasing the typecast of Oyo as a state of brigandage and violence.

    He also expressed happiness that in spite of the several failed attempts at conducting the council elections occasioned by some legal encumbrances, the exercise eventually held in a peaceful atmosphere.

  • Teenager arraigned for ‘attacking’ man

    A teenage boy, Aloh Stephen, was yesterday arraigned at a Kubwa Grade 1 Area Court in Abuja for allegedly attacking a man, Odey Simon, with a broken bottle.

    Stephen, 19, of Berger Camp, Kubwa, is facing a one-count charge of causing grievous hurt, an offence he denied.

    Prosecutor John Okpa told the court that Simon reported the incident at Kubwa Police Station on April 30.

    He alleged the accused acted in a violent manner without provocation by attacking the complainant with a bottle.

    “The accused allegedly inflicted cuts on the complainant’s shoulder and other parts of his body,” Okpa said.

    He added that the complainant was taken to Kubwa General Hospital where he spent N23,000.

    The offence contravenes Section 247 of the Penal Code.

    The judge, Mr. Mohammed Marafa, granted the accused bail at N50,000 with one surety resident within the court’s jurisdiction.

    He adjourned further hearing till June 11.

  • Teenager gets five months

    A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, yesterday sentenced an 18-year-old boy, Uche Ani, to five months’ imprisonment for stealing a television set valued at N365, 000.

    Ani, who lives at Karmo Health Centre area, Abuja, pleaded guilty to a three-count charge of shop-breaking and theft.

    The judge, Abubakar Sadiq, however, gave the convict an option of N10, 000 fine and ordered that the recovered item be returned to the owner.

    Sadiq warned the convict to be of good behaviour and desist from committing crimes.

    Prosecutor Dalhatu Zannah told the court that on April 14, Faith Opara, the convict’s neighbour, reported the matter at Karmo Police Station.

    He said the convict and two others at large broke into the complainant’s shop at Karmo about 2am and stole a plasma TV set valued at N365,000.

    Zannah said the convict was caught where he was trying to sell the television.

    He said during investigation and interrogation, the convict made confessional statements.

    The prosecutor said the offences contravened Sections 79, 356 and 288 of the Penal Code.

    He prayed the court to try him under Section 347 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015.

     

  • Teenager remanded for alleged anal sex

    A 17-year-old pupil, who allegedly had anal sex with a 10-year-old boy, was at the weekend remanded in prison on the orders of an Ikorodu Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State.

    Chief Magistrate F. A. Azeez gave the ruling after the accused pleaded not guilty.

    The accused, who lives at Immaculate Street, Baiyeku, Ikorodu, is standing trial on a charge of alleged sexual assault by penetration.

    Prosecutor John Iberedem had told the court that the accused allegedly committed the offence on March 15 on a football field in Baiyeku, Ikorodu.

    “The accused was playing football with the 10-year-old boy and other pupils, and when others left the field, he grabbed the boy and dragged him to the fence before assaulting him.

    “When the boy got home, he told his parents. The accused was interrogated and the case was reported to the police, who arrested him,” he said.

    The offence contravenes Section 261 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015.

    The case was adjourned till May 5.

  • Teenager: I was abducted, impregnated by policeman

    •Edgal orders investigation

    A 16-year-old girl, Chinelo Obadike, has accused a policeman attached to the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) of abducting, raping and impregnating her.

    Obadike was allegedly abducted last May 8 on her way to her sister’s place in Ojo, a Lagos suburb.

    It was gathered that the policeman, identified as Henry, who was at the time serving at Ojo Division,  saw the girl on the road holding a piece of paper and forcefully took her to a hotel.

    Chinelo said: “I was going to my sister’s place. She sells food at Ojo. That was when Officer Henry saw me and forced me on his motorcycle. He took me to a hotel and raped me at gun point. After that, he took me to his house and told his wife that he has brought a housemaid that would be looking after their children.

    “While I was at their house, he would rape me every night when he came back from work. I was at their house for about 18 days. It was during one of the nights he came to sleep with me that his phone and N10,000 fell from his pocket. I picked them and when they had gone out the next day, I fled to the village.”

    Chinelo was delivered of a baby five months ago.

    Angered by her disappearance, the policeman was said to have gone to FSARS in Ikeja and reported that the girl stole N1.5million belonging to his wife, jewellery and other valuables. It was gathered that a case of robbery was opened against the girl, prompting FSARS operatives to track her to her village in Anambra State.

    It was gathered that Chinelo had sold the policeman’s phone while fleeing, which the police tracked to a man identified as Ekwe, who led detectives to the victim’s sisters in Lagos.

    The founder, Crime Victims Foundation, Mrs. Gloria Egbuji, was notified of the matter by the victim’s family after she was allegedly detained, tortured in FSARS despite being underage and pregnant.

    Mrs. Egbuji, it was learnt, intervened and the parties were invited for a meeting, where operatives of FSARS discovered there was a case of abduction and rape.

    Egbuji confirmed to our correspondent that Miss Obadike was released after she got in touch with the officer in charge of FSARS, Mohammed Sanusi, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP).

    According to the victim’s elder sister, Chukwudumaga Obadike, Chinelo admitted before the police that she stole N10,000 and the officer’s phone when it fell from him while he was raping her.

    She said Henry withdrew the case of N1.5million theft when he realised that the truth had been exposed but denied being responsible for her pregnancy.

    Obadike said: “This thing happened on May 8, last year. I discovered that my sister was missing and we reported her missing at the Ajangbadi Police Station in Ojo.

    “We did not know what happened until July 10 when I was arrested by policemen from Ojo Division, where officer Henry was serving. They said my sister, who I had reported missing, was wanted by the police for N1.5million theft from a policeman.

    “I told them that we were  looking for her and had declared her missing.The policemen went to Ajangbadi Police Station with me to ascertain if truly I reported her missing.They wanted to lock me up but I refused. They later released me by 11pm and the policemen told us to report at the station the next day.

    “When I and another sister of mine called Ada went to Ojo Police Station the next day, the policemen took us to FSARS office at Ikeja. Ada  and I were detained there and were asked to pay N10,000 bail each but we ended up giving them N5,000. They released us and told us to go and look for our missing sister and bring her to FSARS Ikeja.

    “They tracked her to the village and brought her to Lagos. She confessed to us that she did not steal N1.5million from officer Henry’s house that it was a frameup. She was detained in  FSARS cell forone week with the help of officer Henry’s brother, who worked there. The policemen did not give her food. They tortured and forced her to confess to stealing Henry’s N1.5million.”

    The Nation gathered that at the meeting in FSARS, money was demanded from the policeman for the expectant girl’s upkeep and he committed to N50,000.

    But along the line,  Henry, it was gathered denied paying the money and said he could only raise N20,000 because his son was epileptic and had a crisis. The policeman, it was gathered, also denied paying the money for fear that it could be used as evidence against him.

    Our correspondent contacted Police Commissioner Imohimi Edgal, who  immediately sent for CSP Sanusi, the officers in charge of Gender and XSquad units, directing a thorough investigation into the case. He also directed that the case file be transferred to the gender unit.

    CSP Sanusi said: “I do not allow underage persons to be detained in FSARS cell under my watch. Maybe they were doing that before I came but since I came here, no underage person has been detained.”

    He directed our correspondent to the Investigating Police Officer (IPO), Okhide, who denied allegations of torture, starvation and maltreatment. The IPO said the teenager had marks of burns on her body, which she claimed was inflicted on her by her sister. He also said  allegations of rape were made against the officer but he did not investigate it since it was not within his jurisdiction.

  • Teenager remanded over alleged anal sex with 10-year-old

    A 17-year-old student, Gbenga Ajayi, who allegedly had anal sex with a 10-year-old boy, was on Friday remanded in prison on the orders of an Ikorodu Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State.

    Chief Magistrate F. A. Azeez gave the ruling after the accused pleaded not guilty to the charge.

    Ajayi, who resides at Immaculate Street, Baiyeku, Ikorodu, is standing trial on a charge of sexual assault by penetration.

    Earlier, Police Prosecutor John Iberedem told the court that the accused committed the offence on March 15 on a football field in Baiyeku area of Ikorodu.

    “The accused was playing football with the 10-year-old boy and other students and when others left the field, he grabbed the boy and dragged him to the fence before assaulting him.

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    “When the boy got home, he told his parents. The accused was interrogated and the case was reported to the police, who arrested him,’’ he said.

    The offence contravened Section 261 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015.

    Our reporter gathered that the section prescribes life imprisonment for offenders.

    The case was adjourned until May 5.

  • Teenager in court for snatching bag

    The police at the weekend arraigned a wheelbarrow pusher, simply identified as Aliyu, at a Wuse Zone 2 Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, for allegedly snatching a woman’s handbag.

    The accused, of no fixed address, is facing a two-count charge of alleged joint act and theft.

    Police prosecutor Mr. Adeyemi Oyeyemi told the court that the accused allegedly committed the offences on March 25, at 4 am.

    He said the accused, with two suspected accomplices, at large, allegedly snatched a handbag belonging to Elizabeth Ekebafe.

    Oyeyemi alleged that the complainant was in a taxi in front of Mosco Night Club when her bag was snatched.

    He said the items in the bag included Ekebafe’s international passport, N45,000 and $300.

    The prosecutor said the offences contravened sections 79 and 287 of the Penal Code.

    The accused pleaded not guilty, saying he could not meet any bail condition.

    Magistrate Ahmed Ubangari ordered Aliyu remanded in prison custody.

    He adjourned the case till April 20 for hearing.