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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