11th October, 2022
By Amen Gajira
A 24-year-old Kaduna based businessman, Dazuli Abubakar, has been arraigned in court for luring a seven-year-old boy with N200 to defile him.
Abubakar was arrested after the mother reported the matter at the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) office in Kafanchan on Sept.29.
NSCDC Counsel, Mr Marcus Audu, told Magistrates’ Court in Kafanchan, Kaduna State where the businessman was arraigned on Tuesday that the mother said Abubakar lured the complainant’s seven-year-old son with N200 and sodomised him.
The police alleged that Abubakar threatened to kill the boy if he revealed what happened to anyone.
He said the victim was taken to the Salama Sexual Assault Referral Centre, Kafanchan and was referred to the NSCDC for investigation.
Abubakar was arraigned on charges of committing unnatural offence, contrary to the provisions of Section 259 of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law.
Magistrate Michael Bawa, adjourned the matter until Nov.1 after declining to take Abubakar’s plea for lack of jurisdiction to hear the matter.
Bawa directed the prosecutor to forward the case file to the State Director of Public Prosecution for legal advice.
He ordered that the businessman be remanded in a correctional facility.
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