A Magistrates’ Court in Ikeja, Lagos, on Wednesday, ordered the remand of Sikiru Idowu, 48 and Tunde Lasis, 42, allegedly defiled a 15-year-old girl.
be remanded in a correctional facility, pending legal advice.
Magistrate O.A. Ajibade, who did not take the plea of the defendants, ordered that they should be remanded in the Nigerian Correctional Service centre in Kirikiri, Lagos.
Ajibade ordered the police to send the case file to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for legal advice and adjourned the case until July 29.
The defendants are charged with defilement and conspiracy.
Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, DSP Kehinde Ajayi, told the court that Idowu who lives at Ketu Epe, committed the offence sometime in 2020 while Lasisi who Lives at the same area committed the offence early in 2021.
Ajayi said that the case was reported at the Ketu Police Station, Lagos by the victims parents.
She said that the victim was able to recognise the defendant during police investigation.
The offence, she said, contravened the provisions of sections 137 and 411 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015. (NAN)
