A woman who is lodging in Bolingo hotel in Abuja has taken the Mgt of the hotel to court with claims that one of its staff (a housekeeper) raped her 5 year old baby. The hotel is however claiming that the woman and her baby who have been guests at the hotel for about 3 months is over 1 million naira indebted to the hotel is only looking for a way to get out of her debt.
The hotel’s housekeeper, Mr. Godwin Okon denied the allegation in court. In court, the lawyers led by Mr. Ejike Orji told Magistrate Oyekan that the Attorney General of the Federation and minister of Justice, Mr. Muhammed Adoke (SAN), has indicated his interest to prosecute the matter.
The girl’s mother had complained to the police on the 8th of May that Mr. Okon, the housekeeper, kissed and touched her little daughter’s buttocks only to later allege in a petition to the Attorney General of the Federation that her daughter was raped by the said Okon.
The management, through one of its directors, revealed that the five year old girl was taken to the National Hospital in company of the Police, the girl’s mother and a team of her lawyers, where thorough medical examination was carried out on the infant and the result clearly indicated that nothing was wrong with the little girl.
They further stated that three weeks after, the girl’s mother traveled and came back to say she has a contrary result from a private hospital in Abuja showing that the little girl was raped. Magistrate Folashade Oyekan adjourned the matter to 25th June to enable the lawyers from AGF and the defence counsel, Mr. Suleiman Usman, to address the court on whether the AGF can take over a case in an inferior court of records when the police had started prosecuting the case.
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