An Upper Area Court in Makurdi on Thursday ordered that a herbalist, Eze Okereke, 41, be remanded in a correctional centre for alleged defiling a 15-year-old deaf-mute neighbour’s daughter.
The police charged Okereke with defilement.
Magistrate Dooshima Ikpambese, who did not take the plea of Okereke for want in jurisdiction, ordered that he should be remanded in the Federal Medium Maximum Correctional Centre, Makurdi.
Ikpambese directed the police to return the case file to the Benue State Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for legal advice.
She adjourned the case until April 25 for
Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Inspector Veronica Shaagee, told the court that the case was received by the State Commissioner of Police through a petition written by Yogbo Nyiukpera of Anini Community, opposite University of Agriculture, Makurdi Road on March 7.
Shaagee said the victim was the daughter of Nyiukpera.
She said Okereke lured the minor on March 3 with a bottle of soft drink and milk and defiled her.
The prosecutor said the offence contravened the provisions of Section 284 of the Penal Code of Benue State 2004.
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