25-Year Old Sentenced To 14-Years Imprisonment For Rape Today

An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Friday sentenced a 25-year-old unemployed man, Ogboru Godspower, to 14 years imprisonment for defiling a 13-year-old daughter of his neighbour. The Chief Magistrate sentenced Godspower after he pleaded guilty to the offence. “The accused is hereby sentenced to 14 years imprisonment to serve as deterrent to others and to reform him to be a law
abiding citizen,” the judge said. The prosecutor, Jimah Iseghede, had told the court that the offence was committed on Aug. 8 at Godspower’s residence. Iseghede said that the victim was going to take her bath when the accused waylaid her, removed her towel and defiled her. “It was a neighbour who saw the accused in the act that alerted the whole house,’’ he said.