What exactly is this worlfd turning into as a A 60-year-old
man, Nuhu Mohammed, on Thursday pleaded guilty to raping his 12-year-old
daughter and her 13-year-old friend.
Mohammed,
who appeared before a Minna Magistrate’s Court, is standing trial on a
one-count charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with two minors, an offence which
runs contrary to Section 18(2) of the Child Rights Law of Niger State 2010.
After pleading guilty, Mohammed begged the court for leniency
and one begins to wonder how this leniency would work when he wasn’t lenient
with the minors when raping them, including his own daughter but good one was
the fact that his plea was, however, not taken by the Magistrate, Fati Auna on
the grounds that her court lacked the jurisdiction to hear the case.
Auna directed the Police to forward the case file to the State
Director of Public Prosecution for legal advice, and ordered that the defendant
be remanded in prison pending the advice.
She,
thereafter, adjourned the matter until Nov. 16, for further mention.
The Police
Prosecutor, Mr Emmanuel Danladi, had told the court that one Ahmad Aliyu of
Garatu village in Bosso Local Government of Niger, reported the matter at the
Kpakungu Police Station, on Oct. 17.
Danladi
alleged that the defendant had lured the two minors into his shop and had
carnal knowledge of them.
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