Hyacinth Chinweuba
A 37-year-old businessman, Abdul’aziz Abdullahi, has been arraigned before a Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Kano for forcibly sodomising a six-year-old boy.
The accused, of Yakasai Quarters Kano, however pleaded not guilty to the one count charge of unnatural offence.
The Prosecutor, Inspector Pogu Lale, told the court that one Shafi’u Sani of the same address reported the case at Hisbah Board Sharada Kano, on November 4.
Lale alleged that on November 3, at about 8.00 p.m, the accused deceived and lured the complainant’s six-year-old son to his room situated at Yakasai Quarters Kano, and had unlawful canal knowledge of him.
He noted that the offence contravened section 284 of the penal code.
Chief Magistrate Muhammad Jibril ordered that the accused be remanded at the correctional facility and adjourned the case till December 24 for further mention.