A 65-year-old landlord, identified as Igwe Ambrose has been given a double life sentence for sticking his fingers into the private parts of his tenant’s seven- and eleven-year-old children.
The judgment was delivered by Justice Abiola Soladoye of the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Monday.
According to the judge, the prosecution was able to prove Ambrose’s four counts of sexual assault by penetration and indecent treatment of a child beyond a reasonable doubt.
Justice Soladoye described the defendant as a filthy old man who while ostensibly offering to assist the survivors with their schoolwork, caressed their breasts and touched them indecently.
In addition, the judge ruled that the survivor’s evidence had shown the defendant to be an unreliable, dishonest, and unworthy liar.
“The children decided to open up to their mother, who then informed her husband; he thereafter confronted the defendant and the matter was reported to a police station.
“The police visited the scene and the defendant was invited to the police station where he denied the allegations against him.
The judge, therefore, found the defendant guilty of all four counts against him, which were brought against him in violation of Sections 135 and 261 of the Lagos State 2015 Criminal Laws.
Mrs. Olufunke Adegoke, the State Counsel, called four witnesses: the mother of the survivors, the IPO, who submitted five exhibits, and two survivors.
According to the prosecution, the defendant committed the charges at Shagari Estate in Ipaja, Lagos, between January and June of 2021.
Meanwhile, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), on Sunday said it has neutralised numerous terrorist elements at Tsauni Doka in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, the Director of Public Relations and Information, NAF, stated this in a statement in Abuja.
Gabkwet said that the air interdiction mission was carried out by the NAF component of Operation Whirl Punch.
According to him, the strikes were carried out after credible intelligence revealed the presence of a terrorist kingpin known as Boderi and his foot soldiers at Tsauni Doka.
He said the air strikes were conducted on the location in the early hours of November 16, with devastating consequences on the terrorists.
“Both strikes were termed very successful as several terrorists were neutralised and their motorcycles destroyed.
“Boderi and his brother Nasiru, alongside their cohorts, have been blamed for several attacks and abductions along the Abuja-Kaduna expressway, Kaduna-Birnin Gwari Road as well as in several communities in Niger and Kaduna States,” he said.