A 41-year-old cobbler, Abiodun Akinbo, on Friday pleaded guilty before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court to beating up a girl for refusing to date him. Ogbe remanded the accused, who resides in Mushin, Lagos, in Kirikiri Prisons, pending sentence at the next date of adjournment. Aondohemba Koti had earlier told the court that the accused committed the offence on Jan. 24 on Agege Motor Road, Mushin, Lagos. “Akinbo told the complainant that he would organise his friends to gang-rape her since she refused to date him. According to the prosecutor, the offence contravened Section 171 of the revised Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015, which prescribes one-year jail term as the penalty for assault.

Source: Nigerian Tribune January 26, 2018 13:02 UTC