Two herdsmen have been remanded in a correctional centre for abducting and gang-raping a pregnant woman in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Dabo Yakubu, told an area court in Gwagwalada that the defendants, Nuru Tukur (21) and Yusufa Haruna (29), on February 25, abducted an eight months pregnant woman from her house in Abaji Area Council of the FCT, took her to a bush were both of them raped her.
He said one Abubakar Wakili of Yaba in Abaji Area Council reported the matter at Gwagwalada Area Command office on Feb.26.
Yakubu said that on Feb. 25, the convicts abducted the victim from Abaji Area Council from her house, adding that the herdsmen took the victim to a bush where both of them raped her not minding that she was eight months pregnant.
The prosecutor said the offences contravened Sections 96, 262, 264, 387 of the Penal Code.
The Judge, Malam Abdullahi Abdulkarim, deferred sentencing in order for him to see and know the condition of the victim.
