A 55-year -old retired police officer, Mr Oliver Ugbaga, was last Monday arraigned at a Makurdi Magistrates\u2019 Court for allegedly raping a minor.
Ugbaga was charged with \u201cProcuration of a minor and rape\u2019\u2019 punishable under Sections 276 and 284 of the Penal Code Laws of Benue, 2004.
The Prosecutor, Sgt. Regina Ishaya told the court that a petition by one Mrs Grace Okoha of Iniongum, Wadata, Makurdi, addressed to the Commissioner of Police, Benue State Command, was received on December 14, 2018.
Ishaya said that the petitioner stated that her 14-year-old daughter went out on December 7, 2018 but did not come back.
\u201cShe stated that all efforts to trace her whereabouts proved abortive until on December 8, 2018 when the accused came to her house and told her that he had taken the girl as his wife.
\u201cThe petitioner further stated that the accused thereafter, warned her not to report the matter to anybody,\u2019\u2019 she said.
The prosecutor told the court that the accused was arrested during police investigation and he confessed committing the crime.
She also informed the court that investigation into the matter was in progress and pleaded for adjournment to give time for the investigation to be concluded.
Mr Prince Agbo, counsel to the accused, applied for bail for his client, promising to comply with the bail conditions.
The Magistrate, Mr Peter Chaha, granted bail to the accused in the sum of N100, 000 and a surety in like sum.
Chaha adjourned the matter to February 27, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A 55-year -old retired police officer, Mr Oliver Ugbaga, was last Monday arraigned at a Makurdi Magistrates\u2019 Court for allegedly raping a minor. Ugbaga was charged with \u201cProcuration of a minor and rape\u2019\u2019 punishable under Sections 276 and 284 of the Penal Code Laws of Benue, 2004. The Prosecutor, Sgt. Regina Ishaya told the court […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}