A 30-year-old man,
Godface Ibama, suspected to be a homosexual, was on Wednesday arraigned
before a Magistrate’s Court in Port Harcourt.
Ibama was accused of unlawfully having carnal knowledge of seven year-old twin brothers, Elijah and Elisha, through the anus.
The accused was arraigned on two counts by the police.
Ibama
was brought to the court by the prosecutor, Sergeant Kenneth Osisi, who
stood in for the River State Commissioner of Police.
The
charges read, “That you, Godface Ibama ‘m’ on the 23rd day of August,
2013, at Urualla Waterfront, Mile One Diobu, Port Harcourt in Port
Harcourt Magisterial District, did have an unlawful carnal knowledge of
one Elijah ‘m’ aged 7 years through the anus without his consent and
thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 214 (1) of the
Criminal Code Cap 37, Vol. II Laws of Rivers State of Nigeria 1999.
“That
you, Godface ‘m’ on the same date and place in the aforesaid Magistrial
District did have an unlawful carnal knowledge of one Elisha ‘m’ aged 7
years through the anus without his consent and thereby committed an
offence punishable under Section 214 (1) of the Criminal Code Cap 37,
Vol. II Laws of Rivers State of Nigeria 1999.”
The accused pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The
magistrate ordered that Ibama be remanded in prison custody till
September 11, 2013 when arguments on his (accused) bail would be heard.
It
was said that Ibama, who was in court without a lawyer to represent
him, risks more than 14 years in prison if found guilty of the offence.
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