An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court has remanded a 43-year-old boarding school housemaster, Adema Ogunbiyi in Kirikiri custodial facility for allegedly defiling a 12-year-old boy.
Chief Magistrate, E.Kubeinje, on Monday ordered that Ogunbiyi be kept at the facility pending advice from the state Director of Public Prosecutions.
The court did not take the plea of Ogunbiyi.
Kubeinje, however, adjourned the case to July 24, for mention.
The Prosecutor, Insp John Iberedem had earlier told the court that the suspect committed the offence on June 18 between the hours of 10:00pm and 11:30pm at St Francis Catholic Secondary School located at Idimu Road, Ikotun-Lagos.
The prosecutor said the suspect, who is a house master in the school, sexually assaulted the boy, adding that the offence contravenes the provisions of Section 261 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015, which prescribes life imprisonment for such offence.
