The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, AGF, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, has secured the conviction of one Laminu Ahmed, 36, for the rape of a seven-year-old girl. Justice Modupe Osho-Adebiyi of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court in a judgment delivered sentenced him to life imprisonment.
The trial judge held that the prosecutor from the Sexual and Gender-Based Violence unit of the Federal Ministry of Justice headed by Mrs Yewande Awopetu successfully proved the case. The convict had on 3rd January 2023 asked the victim to bring him a plate of food from the food her mother was selling at the Zuba Fruit Market, Abuja and lured her to follow him with the food to a public bathroom in the market.
The defendant was charged to court by Prosecution Counsel from the SGBV Response Unit of the Federal Ministry of Justice , on an eight-count charge for the offences of unlawful sexual intercourse with a child and sexual abuse under the Child Rights Act; Rape, Intimidation and Infliction of bodily injury under the Violence against Persons Prohibition Act 2015; and Criminal force under the Penal Code. However, the defendant upon arraignment in June 2023 pleaded not guilty to all eight counts.
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