BY BARTHOLOMEW MADUKWE & MICHAEL NWOPOKE
LAGOS — A 29-year-old man, Jamiu Lawal, was yesterday, arraigned before
an Ebute-Metta Chief Magistrate Court in Lagos, for kidnapping and
allegedly raping a 20-year-old lady.
The accused, who was brought into the court by police from Denton
Police Station, Oyingbo, was said to have conspired with others at large
to kidnap the victim by taking her to an unknown destination where they
raped her severally.
The accused was arraigned on a three-count charge of conspiracy,
manner likely to cause breach of the peace and having unlawful canal
knowledge of the victim, but he pleaded not guilty to the charges.
According to the prosecutor, Mr. Etim Nkankuk, a Superintendent of
Police, “Jamiu and others now at large had on March 17, 2013, at about
10.30 pm, kidnapped a 20-year-old lady (name withheld) to an unknown
destination and raped her severally, an offence punishable under
sections 409, 56 (1) and 258 of the criminal laws of Lagos state, 2011.”
Counsel to the accused, Chief Saka Bello, applied for bail for the
accused in the most liberal terms as the case is a bailable offence.
The presiding magistrate, Mrs. Aje Afuwa, granted the accused bail in
the sum of N50,000, with two sureties in the like sum and adjourned the
case to April 24 and 29 for mention and trial.
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