LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- A Family Court sitting in Iyaganku, Ibadan, has ordered the remand of skit maker, Maruf Abdullahi, popularly known as “Trinity”, over alleged sexual exploitation of a 10-year-old girl.
The court also arraigned Isiaka Ahmed, 40, and his wife, Rofiat, 29, who are parents of the victim on two-count charges of conspiracy and sexual abuse and exploitation alongside the skit maker.
Magistrate, Mrs P.O. Adetuyibi, who did not take the defendants’ plea for want of jurisdiction, said that the case file had been filed and duplicated at the Oyo State Ministry of Justice.
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Adetuyibi remanded the three defendants in Agodi correctional facility, Ibadan, until 11 July when the case would come up for mention.
The Defence Counsel, Mr. Oludare Adebayo, argued that Section 41 empowered the court to hear the matter.
Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Inspector Oluwakemi Arowosaye, had told the court that the three defendants conspired together to sexually abuse the girl.
Arowosaye revealed that the first defendant, “Trinity”, on 17 Dec, 2022, sexually abused and exploited the girl in Kuola area of Ibadan.
“Abdullahi was asking the victim the colour of his penis, recording the scene and posting it on social media,” she said.
According to her, the offences are contrary to Section 35 (1) and punishable under Section 35 (2) of Oyo State Child Rights Law, 2006 and Section 516 of the Criminal Code Laws of Oyo State, 2000.
