A 25-year-old man, Sunday Agosin, was on Wednesday brought before a Magistrate’s court sitting in the Yaba region of Lagos State for allegedly shipping off a girl, Christiana Madetonhou, to Abuja as a house help without the agreement of her parents.
Agosin was brought before Magistrate, L. Y. Linda on a two counts charge presented against him by the Lagos State Police Command.
Our reporter learnt that one Damian Sossou contacted the defendant to offer him home assistance and Agosin, in turn, called Paul (surname unknown) seeking house help.
Our reporter further learnt that Paul, a claimed uncle to the victim, without understanding the defendant’s plan, following the phone chat with him, went to Cotonou in Benin Republic and took Madetonhou, and delivered her to Agosim who subsequently transferred her to Abuja to be a house assistant to Sossou.
But when the girl’s number was no longer coming through, Paul reported it to the police who subsequently arrested Agosin.
The police prosecutor, ASP Chekwube Okeh, informed the court that the defendant committed the act sometime in December 2022.
According to Okeh, the crime committed is punishable under Sections 411 and 168(d) of the Criminal Code of Lagos State 2015.
The charge read in part, “That you Sunday Agosin and others still at large sometime in December 2022, at Makoko, Yaba, Lagos, in the Lagos Magisterial did conspire together by taking one Christiana Madetonhou for servitude purpose without her parents consent and there by committee an offence contrary to Section 411 of the Criminal law of Lagos State 2015.”
Nonetheless, the defendant pled not guilty to the allegations presented against him.
The court granted him bail in the amount of N2,000,000 with two sureties in a similar sum and postponed the matter to April 26, 2023, for mention.
