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Twenty-three year-old Sunday Akano lured his friend’s wife to his house and raped her, prosecutors told a Magistrate Court in Ilorin on Monday.
The victim said that on March 4 while at her sister’s house at Agbo- Oba area, she received a call from an unknown number and that in the course of discussion, she discovered that it was Sunday Akano, a friend to her husband. She said Akano told her that her husband was with him in his house and that she should join them.
The complainant alleged that when she arrived the suspect’s house, she asked after her husband, but Sunday held her at the neck and threatened to kill her if she struggled with him. She added that he overpowered her and raped her.
The prosecution said: “Investigation conducted showed that Sunday Akano lured the victim to his house under the pretext of settling a problem between his friend and the wife. But when she got there, he raped her.”
Magistrate F.O. Olokoyo then ordered that the accused be remanded at Mandala Prison Yard while the case was adjourned to March 30.