By Moronke Boboye
Lagos – An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday remanded a 36-year-old man, Martins Ukemezie, in Kirikiri Prisons for allegedly raping a teenager who came to sell groundnut to him.
Chief Magistrate P. E. Nwaka refused to listen to the plea by the accused but remanded him in prison.
The accused, a spare-part seller of No.114, Meiran Road, Meiran, a suburb of Lagos, is being tried for rape.
The prosecutor, Insp. Christopher John, told the court that the accused committed the offence on June 4, at the accused residence.
John said that the accused called the girl, a 13-year-old, who was hawking groundnut into his house on the pretext that he wanted to patronise her.
“The accused, thereafter, shut the door at the girl, covered her mouth so that the neighbours would not hear her cry and raped her.
“Thereafter, the accused opened the door for the girl who then cried home, “he said.
John added that the accused was later arrested by the police.
The prosecutor said that the offence contravened Section 262 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 (Revised).
Nwaka adjourned the case until July 16 for mention.
