22-year-old, Friday Nwaboyi, has been remanded to the Ikoyi Correctional Centre for stealing a three-year-old child, Suraji Abdulkadiri in the Ijora Badia, Lagos State.
Nwaboyi was arraigned before Magistrate P. E. Nwaka of the Yaba Magistrates’ Court on two counts bothering conspiracy and child stealing.
The prosecutor, Thomas Nurudeen, said the offence committed by Nwaboyi contravened Sections 411 and 277 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2015.”
The charge read in part, “That you, Friday Nwaboyi, and others at large, on February 26, 2023, around 6.45 pm at No 21 Ireti Owoseni Street, Ijora Badia, Lagos, in the Lagos Magisterial District did unlawfully steal one Suraji Abdulkadiri, aged three-year-old, to an unknown destination and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 277 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2015.”
The charge was read out to the defendant in English, but his plea was not taken.
Nurudeen, therefore, requested that he be remanded in the correctional centre pending legal advice from the Directorate of Public Prosecution.
Granting the request, Nwaka ordered that the defendant be remanded at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre pending legal advice from the DPP.
He adjourned the case till June 6, 2023.
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