Man In Court For Marrying Girl Without Consent

A middle-aged man, Abdulkareem Kashif, was on Thursday arraigned in an Ilorin Magistrates’ Court for allegedly abducting a 21-year-old lady and marrying her without her parents’ consent.

The prosecutor, Insp. Mathew Ologbonsaye said Kashif was arrested following a petition by Basheer Adefaka against the defendant alleging that he abducted and married his daughter with radical ideology.

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The Prosecutor said that investigation had revealed that the defendant furnished the Sharia Court of Appeal in Ilorin with false information about the marriage to fraudulently obtain a marriage certificate for the purported union.

He said that the defendant appeared in court on a three-count charge of abduction, fraudulent marriage and false information with the intent to mislead the public.

He said the alleged offences contravened sections 272, 386 and 140 of the Penal Code, Daily Trust reports.

Ologbonsaye said investigation was still continuing into the matter and left the bail request by the defendant to the discretion of the court.

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