A man in Yola town, Yola South LGA of Adamawa State, Adamu Abdurahman, is now in the eye of the storm for allegedly abducting two teenage boys and having carnal knowledge of them, with one testing positive to HIV.
Investigation by our correspondent revealed that while one of the boys, 16-year-old Cosmos Martins, is missing, with the man claiming that he sent the boy back to where he came from, the one who escaped from the man and is currently in the custody of a guardian, 17-year-old Sani Fidelis, has been found to be infected with HIV.
The two boys had travelled to Yola last month from their homes in Mubi, a town in the northern fringe of the state, to look for menial jobs at the state capital and had ran into Adamu Abdurahman, who pretended to be the head of the ward in Yola town where he met with the boys, and took them to his house on the strength of that claim.
Phillip Wasa, the guardian of the 17-year-old Sani Fidelis, who disclosed this, said the teenager’s HIV status was established after he was taken to hospital upon his falling ill some days after his subjection to anal sex by his captor.
The matter is currently in a Yola magistrate court which yesterday declined an application of bail filed by the counsel to the accused, Barr. Friday Charles, who had pleaded that the offence is bailable and that the accused is a Yola resident who had undertaken to avail his presence anytime it might be required.
Countering this plea, the police prosecutor, ASP Abdullahi Abubakar, had urged the court to reject the application for bail, as the accused might jeopardise police investigations if freed on bail.
Ruling on the bail application, the magistrate presiding over the case, Hon Jummai Ibrahim, said the offence with which the accused was charged is not bailable as it is capital in nature.