An Oyo State Family Court 2, sitting at Iyaganku Ibadan, on Thursday ordered the remand of the owner of Kingdom Cornerstone Orphanage Home, alleged to have raped two girls in the orphanage.
The man, Kolade Ajayi, 52, was dragged to the court by the police for the rape of two girls, one of them a minor.
The Magistrate, Mrs P. O. Adetuyibi did not take the plea of defendant due to lack of jurisdiction but ordered that he be remanded at Abolongo Correctional Centre in Oyo town.
Adetuyibi said Ajayi would remain in custody pending advice by the state Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), and adjourned the matter till May 9, for mention.
Earlier, the Prosecutor, Insp Folake Ewe told the court that Ajayi, the CEO of Kingdom Cornerstone Orphanage Home, Ago-Tailor in Odo-Ona area of Ibadan, raped the two girls, between 2022 and March 2023.
The prosecutor said one of the victims was 16 years and the other, 19.
She said the offence contravened section 34 of the Oyo State Child Rights Law, 2006.
A Grade 1 Area Court in Karu, Abuja, on Thursday sentenced a 27-year-old man, Halidu Nuhu, to four years’ imprisonment for stealing items and possessing dry leaves suspected to be hemp.
The Judge, Mr Umar Mayana sentenced Nuhu after he pleaded guilty to criminal conspiracy, mischief, theft, criminal intimidation and constituting public nuisance, but begged for leniency.
The judge gave the convict an option to pay N250, 000 fine.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Mr Edwin Ochayi, told the court that one Mr Halilu Abdulrasheed of Kuruduma, Asokoro, Abuja, reported the matter at the Asokoro Police Station.
Ochayi said that, on Feb. 1, Nuhu conspired with another person and went into Galaxy Guest Inn, destroyed a local weight lift valued at N10,000, and stole a max phone which was later retrieved.
According to Ochayi, during police investigation, Nuhu and his accomplice confessed to the crimes while police found a long knife on him along with dry leaves suspected to be hemp.
Ochayi submitted that the offences contravened Section 327, 397 and 188 of the Penal Code.
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