Justice Abiola Soladoye of the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has remanded a visually impaired man, Francis Ugachukwu, for allegedly defiling a 13-year-old girl, (name withheld).
Soladoye ordered that the defendant be remanded in Kirikiri Correctional Centre pending hearing and filing of his bail application.
The police in the state arraigned Ugachukwu on one count charge of defilement but the Visually Impaired man pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The case was adjourned until October 18 for a hearing of the bail application and commencement of trial.
According to the state counsel, Abimbola Abolade, the defendant committed an offence sometime in November 2022 on No. 16 Kareem Giwa St., Abule-Osun, Ojoo in Lagos.
According to the prosecution, the offence contravened the provisions of Section 137 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.
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Similarly, an Area Court in Jos, the Plateau State Capital, on Wednesday sentenced John Shedrack, 26, to three months imprisonment for stealing 100 chickens valued at N300,000.
The judge, Shawomi Bokkos, sentenced the convict after he pleaded guilty to the offence and begged the court for leniency.
The court condemned the act stating that it is an attempt to impoverish another.
Bokkos gave the convict an option of a N20,000 fine or three months imprisonment and asked the convict to pay a compensation of N300,000 to the complainant or six months imprisonment in default.
Earlier, the police prosecutor, Insp Monday Dabit, told the court that the case was reported at the Rantya Police Station on June 19 by Mr Ikechukwu Egwuonwu.
He said the accused person trespassed into the complainant’s poultry farm and stole his chickens.
The prosecutor further told the court that during the police investigation, the accused confessed to having committed the offence.
The offence, he said, contravened the Plateau State Penal Code law of Northern Nigeria.