The police in Lagos on Friday arraigned a 49-year-old man, Muffat Inyang, before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly relocating his children to another state without the consent of their mother.
The Prosecutor, Insp John Iberedem , told the court that the defendant, who lives in the Oshodi area of Lagos, committed the offence on Oct. 30, 2023 at about noon in December.
Iberedem said that the defendant relocated his three children to the custody of a third party in Akwa Ibom without the consent of their biological mother.
He said Inyang conducted himself in a manner likely to cause a breach of peace with such an act even though himself and the children’s mother were not living together.
The offences, according to the prosecutor, contravened the provisions of Sections 168 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
The section attracts imprisonment for up to three months.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge preferred against him.
The Chief Magistrate, Mrs E.Kubeinje , admitted the defendant to bail in the sum of N200,000, with two sureties in like sum.
