An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Tuesday, ordered that a 37-year-old primary school driver, Kingsley Okwumbu, be remanded for allegedly defiling a three-year-old pupil of the school.
The police charged Okwumbu, who resides in Ikeja area of Lagos State, with defilement and sexual assault.
Magistrate Ejiro Kubeinje did not take the plea of Okwumbu.
She ordered that he should be remanded in Kirikiri Correctional Centre.
Kubeinje directed the police to send the case file to the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) for legal advice.
She adjourned the case until May 10 pending DPP advice.
Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, DSP Kehinde Ajayi told the court that Okwumbuv committed the offence in March.
Ajayi alleged that Okwumbu, being a school bus driver at Beehive Nursery and Primary School, Agidingbi, defiled the three-year-old.
The offence, he said, contravened the provisions of sections 137 and 261 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015. (NAN)
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Meanwhile, The Police Command in Lagos State said on Monday that it had begun investigation into the alleged viral rape video purportedly depicting students of Chrisland School, Lagos.
Spokesman for the command, SP Benjamin Hundey, said in a statement that the Commissioner of Police in the state, CP Abiodun Alabi, ordered the investigation.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that a video of a 10-year-old female student of Chrisland Schools Lagos, allegedly raped by fellow students during a trip to Dubai, UAE, went viral recently.
The incident reportedly happened when the students traveled to Dubai to participate in the World School Games from March 10 to 13, where the school won over 30 medals.