Thursday, 8th July 2021: A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday ordered that a 75-year-old man, Umar Isah, who allegedly sodomised a 10-year-old boy, be remanded in a correctional centre.

The police charged Isah with unnatural offence.

The Magistrate, Hajara Dauda, who did not take Isah’s plea, held that the court lacked jurisdiction to entertain the suit.

She directed the police to forward the case file to the state Director of Public Prosecutions for legal advice, and adjourned the case until July 13, for further mention.

Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Inspector Sunday Baba, told the court that Isah committed the offence on July 4 at 1p.m., at his residence.

Baba said the defendant lured the boy into his room and sodomised him.

The prosecutor added that during the investigation, Isah confessed to the crime.

The offence, he said, contravened the provisions of Section 259 of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law, 2017.