Court grants man N50,000 bail for allegedly abducting 17-year-old girlfriend

An Abule Egba Magistrates' Court in Lagos on Friday granted bail in the sum of N50,000 to one Ekene Iyadi who abducted a 17-year-old girl.

The magistrate, Mrs Adenike Shonubi, granted the accused bail with a surety in like sum after he pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Shonubi , then, adjourned the case till April 15 for further hearing.

The accused, 25, a motor cycle rider, who lives at 8, Railway Lane, Jafa Bus Stop, Agbado, a suburb of Lagos is facing a one-count charge of abduction.

Earlier, the prosecutor, Insp. Racheal Williams, had told the court that the accused committed the offence on March 27 at the accused’s residence.

The prosecution said that the victim had  left  her aunty’s house  where she was staying on March 20 for her home town in Ekiti  because her aunty scolded  her.

"When she returned to Lagos from Ekiti, she didn't go to her aunty. All efforts by her aunty to trace the victim proved abortive until she came across the accused whom she knew as the victim’ s boy friend.

"He confessed that the victim had been with him since she returned from Ekiti , and the police had to arrest  him," she said.

The offence, according to the prosecutor, contravened Section 141 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that an offender would be liable to two years’ imprisonment.