One Adamu Abdurahman has been remanded in prison custody for allegedly abducting and having carnal knowledge of two teenage boys, ages 16 and 17.
While the 16-year-old is missing, with the abductor claiming he returned him to Mubi, a town in the northern fringe of the state from where both boys travelled to Yola last month, the 17-year-old who is now with a guardian has been diagnosed with HIV.
A Yola magistrate court handling the case refused a bail application filed for the accused when ruling on the application was delivered on Thursday, the Nation reports.
The counsel to the accused, Friday Charles, had pleaded in his application for bail that the offence is bailable and that the accused is a Yola resident who had undertaken to be always present each time he is needed by either the court or the police.
Countering this plea, the police prosecutor, ASP Abdullahi Abubakar, had urged the court to reject the application for bail, contending that if the accused was granted bail at this stage of the case, he could jeopardize police investigation into it.
The magistrate presiding over the case at the Magistrate Court, Yola Town, Hon Jummai Ibrahim, ruled that the offence with which the accused was charged is not bailable as it is capital in nature, and therefore ordered that the accused be returned to prison custody, and adjourned further mention of the case to May 22, 2019.
