By Kola ISHOLA
A Makurdi Upper Area Court has ordered the remand of 39-year-old man Idris Abdullahi at the Maximum Correctional Centre, Makurdi, Benue State for hijacking a 15-year-old who was on her way to church and defiling her at a gunpoint.
The prosecutor, Insp Veronica Shaagee, told the court that Mr Clement Gele of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, North Bank, Makurdi, reported the case on June 25.
The case was transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Makurdi, from C Division, North Bank, Makurdi, on June 27.
Shaagee said that Gele reported that the defendant defiled his granddaughter at gunpoint while she was going to St. Mary’s Catholic Church, North Bank.
She said that child defilement contravened Section 284 of the Penal Code, Law of Benue State, 2004. Makurdi.
The Magistrate, Mrs Dooshima Ikpambese, ordered that the defendant, a resident of 39, Eri St., North Bank, should be kept at the Maximum Correctional Centre, Makurdi, pending advice of the state director of public prosecutions.
The magistrate did not take the plea of the defendant for want of jurisdiction.
She adjourned the case until July 20 for mention.
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