SaharaReporters had on May 24, 2022 reported that a Federal High Court sitting in Jabi, Abuja has issued a warrant of arrest against lgoche Adah, a schoolteacher for allegedly molesting a 14-year-old pupil.
Igoche Daniel Adah, a teacher dismissed and charged with alleged sexual molestation of a 14-year-old before an Abuja High Court was among inmates that escaped from prison custody when terrorists attacked the Kuje Correctional Centre last week, SaharaReporters has gathered.
SaharaReporters had on May 24, 2022 reported that a Federal High Court sitting in Jabi, Abuja has issued a warrant of arrest against lgoche Adah, a schoolteacher for allegedly molesting a 14-year-old pupil.
SaharaReporters had reported how Adah was dismissed on allegations of molestation in the school.
Adah was remanded in Kuje prison on June 23, 2022 after he was arraigned before Justice Akeem Fashola of the Federal Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in Jabi.
The FCT Commissioner of Police had arraigned the dismissed teacher on charges of sexual abuse related offences.
He was put on trial one count charge to the effect that on April 15, 2021, he repeatedly touched the breast and other sensitive parts of a 14-year-old student of Destiny Academy, Lugbe in Abuja where he was a teacher.
He however, pleaded not guilty to the charge punishable under section 32 of Child Rights Act.
At a resumed hearing on Thursday, his counsel, Terka Aondo, confirmed that Adah was among the escaped inmates.
He, however, claimed that he had returned to custody, but failed to produce him in court due to logistics challenges.
Justice Fashola subsequently fixed October 27, 2022 for trial of the defendant in the one count criminal charge of sexual molestation of a minor.