Remand
By Mujidat Oyewole
Ilorin, June 25, 2024 (NAN) An Area Court sitting at Centre-Igboro in Ilorin has remanded a teenager in the Borstal Correctional Training Institute at Ganmo for taking hard drugs and keeping bad friends.
The Presiding Judge, Toyin Aluko, in his ruling said the step taken by the teenager’s father to change the child for good was well intended.
Aluko ordered that the teenager be taken and kept in the training institute for one year.
He said within the period he should be allowed to learn any available handiwork of his choice.
“However, if he changes and becomes a good person, he should be allowed to leave the institute and continue with his life freely,” the judge added.
Earlier, an officer from the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS), Mr Tiamiyu Hakeem (ASCI), had told the court that the teenager’s parents reported their child to them.
He said this was because of his bad behaviour and they said they wanted the institute to reform him.
“The father complained that his child takes all forms of hard drugs, goes about with bad gangs and usually disobeys his parents.
“He said that the mother also agreed that he should be taken to our institute for him to be reformed and be a good citizen,” Hakeem said.(NAN)(www.nannews.ng)
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(Edited by Chidi Opara and Olawale Alabi)
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