Police arrest 33-year-old for raping his neighbour

Firstclass newsline learnt that a 33-year-old accounts officer,
Stephen Itodo, who allegedly raped his neighbour, was on Tuesday
arraigned in an Oshodi Magistrates' Court, Lagos State.
Itodo, who resides at No. 18, Alhaji Shehu Close, Oshodi, Lagos, is
being tried for assault and rape.
The prosecutor, Corporal Kehinde Olatunde, told the court that the
accused committed the offences on May 3 at his residence.
Olatunde said that the accused unlawfully raped his neighbour without
her consent.
"The accused forcefully had sexual intercourse with his 20-year-old
neighbour without her permission," he told the court.
The prosecutor said: "The accused sent the complainant on an errand to
buy matches for him.
"The accused went to call the complainant in her room that he was not
feeling fine that she should help him to buy matches.
"When the complainant came with the matches, she knocked on Itodo's
door, he told her to open the door and bring it inside that he was too
weak to get up.
"Immediately the complainant opened the door and stepped inside, the
accused, who was hiding behind the door, bolted it and dragged her to
his bed."
The prosecutor said that the complainant shouted for help, but the
accused overpowered her and forcefully had sex with her.
The offences, Olatunde said, contravened sections 258 and 261 of the
Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
The accused, denied committing the offence, and the magistrate, Akeem
Fashola, granted him bail in the sum of N200,000 with one surety in
like sum.
Fashola adjourned the case till June 8 for further hearing.
Firstclassnewsline.net