A 20-year-old man, simply identified as Sodiq Sulaimon, on Thursday appeared before an Ikeja High Court for allegedly procuring abortion drugs for his 15-year-old lover Faith Alehi (not real names), who died in the process.
Sulaimon is currently facing a one-count charge of manslaughter brought against him by Lagos State Government, for which he pleaded not guilty.
According to the charge, “Sodiq Sulaimon, on or before December 11, 2012, about 4p.m., at 7 Oriokuta Street, Imota, Ikorodu Lagos, in the Ikeja Judicial Division, did unlawfully kill the girl (names withheld) by procuring abortion drugs for her”.
At the resumed hearing, a witness, Sergeant Elizabeth Osikanlu, told the presiding judge, Justice K. A. Jose, that the matter was referred to her after one Femi Adegboyega came to the station to report that the defendant impregnated his niece and gave her drugs to abort a five-month-old pregnancy.
She disclosed that the defendant admitted having sexual intercourse with the deceased sometime in October 2012 and that he gave her two tablets to abort the pregnancy.
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