A 38-year-old applicant, Augustine Tochukwu, appeared before an FCT High Court on Thursday for allegedly kidnapping and raping a housewife.
Tochukwu, of Umudioka Awka, Anambra State, is charged with four-counts of conspiracy, armed robbery, kidnap and rape.
The prosecutor, Corporal John Ijagbemi, told the court that the accused kidnapped his victim on January 18, 2013.
Ojagbemi alleged that that the accused, in furtherance of his illegal act, used his telephone to call and text the victim’s husband, Nzota Chidi, demanding for N40 million as ransom or risk losing his wife.
Ijagbemi said the accused also raped his victim.
After the charges were read to him, the accused pleaded not guilty.
In a ruling, Justice Husseini Baba-Yusuf, admitted the accused on bail in the sum of N500,000 with two reliable sureties in like sum.
Baba-Yusuf ordered the sureties to produce title deeds of landed property within the FCT.
The judge also ordered that if the accused failed to meet the bail conditions, he would be remanded at the Kuje Medium Security Prison.
Baba-Yusuf adjourned the case until October 13 for trial.
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