A Kaduna Chief   Magistrates’ Court, on Thursday, ordered that a 32-year-old man, Francis Godwin,

be remanded in  a correctional centre pending legal advice.
The defendant who resides at Constitution Road, Kaduna was charged with defilement.
The Prosecutor, Insp. Chidi Leo, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on February 10, 2021 at his residence.
Leo said the defendant who is a neighbour to the victim called her on the pretence of wanting to  send her on an errand. He stated that when the girl followed him to his room, he forcefully pushed her on the bed and defiled her.
The prosecutor added that the defendant was arrested when the girl told her mother what the defendant did. The offence, according to Leo, contravenes Section 209 of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law, 2017.
The Magistrate, Ibrahim Emmanuel, who did not take Godwin’s plea, adjourned the matter to March 2, 2021 for mention, and ordered the police to duplicate the case file and send it to the Kaduna State Director of Public Prosecution for legal advice.