A 29-year-old man, Itunu Abiodun, has been remanded on the Olokuta Correctional Centre for allegedly abducting and defiling a 14-year-old lady.
The defendant is standing trial on a two-count cost bordering on little one abduction and defilement earlier than the Household Magistrates’ Courtroom sitting in Akure.
The police prosecutor, Martins Olowofeso, knowledgeable the court docket that the incident occurred on March 25, 2025, at Kolawole Road, within the Oke-Aro Tuntun space of Akure, the state capital.
He alleged that the defendant kidnapped {the teenager} named Okoye Chinaza and defiled her with out her consent.
The defendant was mentioned to have unlawfully kidnapped and defiled Chinaza, thereby committing an offence opposite to and punishable below Sections 221(2) and 225 of the Legal Code, Cap 37, Quantity 1, Legal guidelines of Ondo State of Nigeria, 2006.
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The defendant pleaded not responsible to the costs when learn to him in court docket.
The prosecutor, nonetheless, urged the court docket to remand the defendant on the Olokuta Correctional Centre pending authorized recommendation from the workplace of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
In her ruling, Justice of the Peace Temitope Alphonso granted the request of the prosecutor and ordered that the defendant be remanded at Olokuta Correctional Centre, pending the end result of recommendation of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP)
The matter was adjourned until June 17, 2025, for additional point out.
Earlier within the month, gunmen kidnapped a preferred industrial bus driver, Muihili Adebayo, in Owo, Ondo State, with the assailants killing his son and injuring his spouse through the assault.
The incident occurred on the residence of the deceased within the Shagari space of Owo in Owo Native Authorities Space of the state.
A neighbour who spoke to Channels Tv mentioned that Adebayo’s spouse was shot whereas resisting the abductors, and one among their youngsters was killed through the battle.
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