A 45-year-old man, Aderemi Adelaja, is currently facing the court in Lagos for allegedly raping her 17-year-old daughter when she was sleeping.
The girl’s mother reported the case to the police and Adelaja was, on Thursday, remanded in a correctional centre by an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court.
According to the News agency of Nigeria, the Chief Magistrate, Olufunke Sule-Amzat, did not take the plea of the defendant but ordered that he should be remanded in the Nigerian Correctional Service in Kirikiri.
The police charged Adeleja, who lives on Afariogun Street, Oshodi, Lagos, with sexual assault and defilement.
Sule-Amzat ordered the police to send the case file to the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions for advice and adjourned the case till February 2, 2020.
Earlier, the prosecutor, ASP Benson Emuerhi, told the court that Adeleja committed the offence on November 2, around 11.44 pm.
He alleged that Adeleja raped the girl while she was asleep.
Emuerhi said the case was reported at the Area ‘F’ Police Command, Ikeja, by the girl’s mother and later transferred to the Gender Section, Ikeja Police Command.
He said, “The offence contravenes the provisions of sections 35, 137 and 265 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State 2015.”
