A 16-year-old girl (name withheld) who was allegedly raped by Lt. Col. Nzidee William, of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), wept yesterday as her rape case was struck out by the Magistrate’s Court for lack of jurisdiction.

When the case came up for hearing yesterday at the Chief Magistrate’s Court, Barnawa, Kaduna, presided over by Sa’adatu Sambo, the accused was absent in court, but was represented by his counsel, Mr. Odogiyon Lanke, who disclosed that they had reached an out-of-court settlement with the counsel to the complainant.

Lanke said, “We held a meeting and we shared with him the correct position of what happened earlier and had the privilege of the other side of the story and he offered to terminate it, and we told him we rather wish the case go to the police for investigation so that the name of the accused person can be cleared, but he insisted on terminating it today, so I am rather surprised by the turnaround of the story” he said.

However, counsel to the complainant, Dyagas Ezeliel, argued that there was no out-of-court settlement reached by the two parties.

“We insisted that service should be effected on the Chief of Army Staff and processes should be followed, because if we are talking of settling a matter out of court, you have to make sure that you hold something at hand of what you want to do because I cannot let the accused be a freelancer.

“So if the magistrate court is referring us to the high court, fine, that is still a good one but if we are settling out of court if we are able to resolve between now and that time and the family feels they are okay, we will resolve the matter out of court,” he said.

Chief Magistrate Sa’adatu Sambo, in her ruling struck out the case saying; “This court will not start what it cannot finish, so the case should be taken to the high court or the Nigerian Police for proper investigation and prosecution.”

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A 16-year-old girl (name withheld) who was allegedly raped by Lt. Col. Nzidee William, of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), wept yesterday as her rape case was struck out by the Magistrate’s Court for lack of jurisdiction.

When the case came up for hearing yesterday at the Chief Magistrate’s Court, Barnawa, Kaduna, presided over by Sa’adatu Sambo, the accused was absent in court, but was represented by his counsel, Mr. Odogiyon Lanke, who disclosed that they had reached an out-of-court settlement with the counsel to the complainant.

Lanke said, “We held a meeting and we shared with him the correct position of what happened earlier and had the privilege of the other side of the story and he offered to terminate it, and we told him we rather wish the case go to the police for investigation so that the name of the accused person can be cleared, but he insisted on terminating it today, so I am rather surprised by the turnaround of the story” he said.

However, counsel to the complainant, Dyagas Ezeliel, argued that there was no out-of-court settlement reached by the two parties.

“We insisted that service should be effected on the Chief of Army Staff and processes should be followed, because if we are talking of settling a matter out of court, you have to make sure that you hold something at hand of what you want to do because I cannot let the accused be a freelancer.

“So if the magistrate court is referring us to the high court, fine, that is still a good one but if we are settling out of court if we are able to resolve between now and that time and the family feels they are okay, we will resolve the matter out of court,” he said.

Chief Magistrate Sa’adatu Sambo, in her ruling struck out the case saying; “This court will not start what it cannot finish, so the case should be taken to the high court or the Nigerian Police for proper investigation and prosecution.”

http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/16-year-old-girl-weeps-as-court-strikes-out-rape-case/

@ bolded: Hmmmmmn!

Such is a country of 'R-APISTS'!
This is why other victims do not bother to come forward to press charges against NIGERIAN BEASTS OF MEN, where the cases of ra-pe rises to 90%. Meanwhile, more ra-pists are being christened every second in Nigeria!

What a tragedy!

Chief Magistrate Sa’adatu Sambo, [size=20pt]in her[/size] ruling struck out the case saying; “This court will not start what it cannot finish, so the case should be taken to the high court or the Nigerian Police for proper investigation and prosecution.”

Why did I think it was a 'female'-SHARIA judge?
No surprises there!
A shameless victim of ra-ap herself. . . most definitely!
Useless woman!

^^^^

They were talking about the family wanting to settle out of court. Why would they want to settle out of court?

Our criminal-justice system has too many loop-hole. This makes it almost impossible for the poor to get justice.

Even if the punishment is CUTTING OF THE PREEK, they will still go free

Atheist:-D:
^^^^

They were talking about the family wanting to settle out of court. Why would they want to settle out of court?

What options does the family have? IN NIGERIA? Please, read again.

[size=20pt]However, counsel to the complainant, Dyagas Ezeliel, argued that there was no out-of-court settlement reached by the two parties.
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“We insisted that service should be effected on the Chief of Army Staff and processes should be followed, because if we are talking of settling a matter out of court, you have to make sure that you hold something at hand of what you want to do because I cannot let the accused be a freelancer.

I am proud of the girl for coming out. She should not fret. Is there anyway we can get pictures of the ra.pist?

How can you take a rape case to the magistrate's court

Justice has been kidnapped, even in the law court.