{"id":15712,"date":"2024-02-06T10:03:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T10:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/court-remands-man-for-allegedly-defiling-minor\/"},"modified":"2024-02-06T10:03:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T10:03:07","slug":"court-remands-man-for-allegedly-defiling-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/court-remands-man-for-allegedly-defiling-minor\/","title":{"rendered":"Court remands man for allegedly defiling minor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A Chief Magistrates\u2019 Court in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, has ordered that a 45-year-old man, Jonah Luka, be remanded in a correctional facility for defiling a seven-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p>Luka was charged by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corp, NSCDC, with rape, contrary to Section 258 of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law.<\/p>\n<p>The presiding judge, Samson Kwasu, declined to take the plea of Luka for lack of jurisdiction to hear the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Kwasu directed the prosecutor to forward duplicate copies of the case file to the State Director of Public Prosecution for legal advice.<\/p>\n<p>He adjourned the matter until February 29 for further mention.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the NSCDC prosecutor, Marcus Audu, told the court that the girl\u2019s father, Nazareth Dauda, reported the matter at the corps\u2019 office in Kafanchan on January 30.<\/p>\n<p>Audu stated that Luka lured the complainant\u2019s daughter into his room at Unguwar Rimi Bajju and defiled her.<\/p>\n<p>He said the minor was taken to the Salama Sexual Referral Centre, Kafanchan, and the matter was referred to the corps for investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Court remands man for allegedly defiling minor<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chief Magistrates\u2019 Court in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, has ordered that a 45-year-old man, Jonah Luka, be remanded in a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[614,384,15],"tags":[135,387,180],"class_list":["post-15712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-court","category-metro","category-news","tag-court","tag-metro","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}