According to pulse.ng, an Iyaganku Family Court in Ibadan, the capital city of Nigeria’s Oyo State, has ordered that Oyebode Alayoteti be remanded at the State Criminal Investigation Department for two weeks for further investigation.
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Girls secondary school teacher remanded after defiling student for 2 years
A 49-year-old male teacher of an all-female secondary school has been remanded by a court following allegations that he had defiled a student for two years.
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The news website reports that the Chief Magistrate, Patricia Adetuyibi, declined the plea of Alayoteti for want of jurisdiction.
She then adjourned the matter until August 4, 2022, for a further hearing.
Before Adetuyibi gave her ruling, the Prosecution Counsel, Insp Folake Ewe, had told the court that Alayoteti, a teacher at the Federal Government Girls College, Oyo Town, defiled a 14-year-old student between November 2021 and May 2022.
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"The suspect started molesting the girl since she was in junior secondary school (class three) when she was 12 years old," he said.
Meanwhile, in Ghana, an Accra Circuit Court has granted bail to a police officer accused of impersonating the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akuffo Dampare, and Director-General of CID, COP Ken Yeboah, in a bid to defraud a Lebanese citizen.
According to the Ghana News Agency, the suspect, General Corporal Akonor Opoku, has been admitted to bail in the sum of GHS100,000.00 with two sureties.
The officer of the law has been charged with two counts of attempt to commit a crime and defrauding by false pretense, to all of which he has pleaded not guilty.
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The presiding judge, Adelaide Abui Keddey, granted the bail application filed by the accused person’s lawyer, Kofi Agyena Agyemang, after the court found out that he was not a flight risk and had a fixed place of abode.
The case has been adjourned to August 31, 2022, for a Case Management Conference between the parties, GNA reports.
The prosecution team has also been ordered to file and serve all disclosures and witness statements within 21 days to enable a speedy and smooth trial.
"Police Chief Inspector Richard Amoah, prosecuting, told the Court that the complainant was a Lebanese and a resident of Tema Community 11, whilst the accused person was a Police Officer stationed at National Patrols Department of the Ghana Police Headquarters-Accra.
"The prosecution said on October 11, 2021, the complainant petitioned the Director General of CID to investigate and arrest one Nalia for stealing USD40,000.00 from his room on August 18, 2021.
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"On August 19, 2021, the complainant received text messages and phone calls on his Vodafone and MTN contact numbers from an unknown Airtel Tigo number posing as the IGP and the Director-General of CID.
"Chief Inspector Amoah told the Court that the callers told the complainant that they knew where the suspect Nalia was hiding and that he should pay GHS10,000.00 for her arrest.
"The prosecution said the complainant pleaded and sent GHS150.00 to the accused person through MoMo and promised to pay the remaining amount upon the arrest of the suspect.
"Chief Inspector Amoah said the callers kept on calling the complainant and sending him text messages to demand for the balance.
"The prosecution said the complainant, upon realising that the callers, whom he used to communicate with were neither IGP nor Director-General of CID, reported the incident to the Police.
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"Investigations revealed that a Bontel phone with two SIM slots with their relative IME’s used by two Airtel Tigo numbers to contact the complainant as the IGP and Director-General of CID was found to have been used in 198 times between the period of August 23,2021 and September 27, 2021, by the accused person with his personal phone number.
"Further investigations revealed that the accused person registered the Airtel Tigo numbers from mobile money vendors, who were witnesses in the case, under the pretext of registering them for his superiors at the Police Headquarters-Accra," the news agency’s report said.
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