Court remands man for criminal charm

AN Ilorin Magistrate Court has ordered the remand of a 34-year-old man who claimed to be an Alfa by profession, Abdulaziz Jamiu of Oke-Awo Compound, and Okeya in Ifelodun Local Government area of Kwara State in prison custody at Mandala Minimum Prison in the outskirts of Ilorin.

The suspect was alleged of criminal charm and an attempt to commit an offence of having canal knowledge with a minor girl, an IJMB student of one of the Tertiary Institutions in the state, contrary to section 217 and 95 of Penal Code Law.

Abdulaziz Jamiu was alleged to have charmed the student and commanded her to follow him to his office at Oke-Awo compound, Okeya where he ordered her to go naked.

The suspect was alleged to have scraped her pubic hair with a razor blade and kept it in his office with an attempt to have canal knowledge with the student after giving her a powder-like substance to rub on her private part in his presence.

All efforts by the counsel to the accused person to plea for leniency was turned down by the presiding Magistrate Shade Lawal, as she said the matter was an ongoing case.

Delivering her ruling on the allegation, Magistrate Lawal ordered the suspect to be remanded in prison custody and adjourned the matter to the March 30 for mention.