The police on Wednesday, April 2, 2014 arraigned seven
commercial sex workers in a Makurdi Magistrates’ Court for beating and stabbing
an Abuja-based business man.
The suspects are Blessing Victor, Martha Joseph, Sonia Okafor,
Esther Sunday, Grace John, Angela Aja and Princess Ojo, all of Express Hotel,
Makurdi.
They are charged with criminal conspiracy, force, causing hurt
and theft.
The prosecution, Insp. Terzungwe Kajo, told the court that
Gabriel Oforma of Plot 24, Gwarimpa Estate, Phase 1, Abuja, lodged the matter
at the ‘B’ Division Police Station on March 20.
He said that the accused persons and some men, currently at
large, beat up Oforma, stabbed him and stole his Nokia Lumia cell phone and
N34,000 cash when he went to visit a friend at Wukari Street, Wurukum, Makurdi.
Kajo added that other things stolen from the complainant were
his travelling bag containing clothes and his national identity card.
The prosecutor said the offence contravened the provisions of
sections 97, 265, 246 and 287 of the Penal Code.
If convicted, they are liable to eight years each in prison with
an option to pay a fine.
After the charges were read to them, the suspects all pleaded
not guilty.
In her defence, the first accused person, Blessing Victor, told
the court that she did not steal anything from the complainant.
She added that “my only sin is that I charged the complainant
N3,000 to have sexual intercourse with me for the whole night.
“After we did it, he refused to pay me and when I complained he
said I stole his money.”
The Magistrate, Mrs Lillian Terseer-Tsumba, granted bail to the
accused persons in the sum of N10,000 each and one surety each in like sum.
She adjourned the matter until May 7 for further mention
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