Minna Magistrates’ Grade 1 Court on
Tuesday remanded a teenager, Mose Lawal, accused of defiling a four-year-old
girl in Niger.
Mr Abdullahi Mayaki, prosecutor for
the state Child Rights Protection Agency, told the court that the incident
occurred on Aug. 29, at Anguwa Soje around Kpankungu in Chanchaga Local
Government.
Mayaki said that the offence
contravened Section 18, sub-section 2 of Niger State Child Right Law.
The defendant, however, pleaded not
guilty to the charge against him, and the prosecutor urged the court not to
grant him bail on the grounds that the offence was of serious magnitude and
attracts severe punishment on conviction.
The Chief Magistrate, Hassan
Mohammed, ordered the remand of the accused and adjourned the case to Sept. 21,
for a mention.
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