An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ court sitting in Ibadan on Wednesday requested that a 25-year-elderly person Momodu Okunola who purportedly assaulted a mentally challenged girl, be remanded in a correctional centre, pending legal advice.
The police charged Momodu, who lives in Omi – Adio, Ibadan, with rape,NAN reports.
Boss Magistrate O.O. Ogunkanmi, didn’t take the supplication of the litigant as the court had no Jurisdiction to engage the issue.
Ogunkanmi who requested that Momodu be remanded in Agodi Correctional Center, additionally requested that the case record be come back to the Director of Public Prosecution ( DPP).
She dismissed the issue until Feb. 7 , for notice.
Prior, the Prosecution Counsel, Insp. Sikiru Opaleye, told the court that on Jan. 8, at around 11: 30a.m., Momodu purportedly assaulted a mentally challenged woman.
The offense, he stated, repudiated the arrangements of Section 218 of the Criminal Code Cap 38, Vol .II, Laws of Oyo State 2000.
