Court Remands Man in Prison Over Assault, Baby Stealing in Bayelsa

By Sola Omoniyi, Lagos

A Magistrate Court sitting in Ovom has ordered that a 30-year-old man, Kingsley Solomon, be remanded in Nigeria Correctional Centre, Okaka for allegedly stealing a two-month-old baby at Azikoro, Yenagoa local government area of Bayelsa State.

According to the report, the Bayelsa Police Command, through Eunice Nnachi Women Advocacy Foundation, ENWAF arrested Kingsley Solomon following an assault on Joy Lucky and the stealing of baby Success Alfred along the Azikoro area.

The order to remand him was given by Chief Magistrate Court 15 Yenagoa, presided over by Sarah B.I. Avoh, Chief Magistrate 11, on Monday.

Solomon was arraigned by the Bayelsa State Police Command before Magistrate Sarah B. I. Avoh on two counts of bothering assault and child stealing.

It was alleged that Solomon on the 23 days of June 2023, at IYC Azikoro Town, gave one Joy Lucky a fast blow on the left eye side with the intent to steal her child and thereby committed an offence punishable under section 282 of the Criminal Code Law, Cap C14, laws of Bayelsa State 2006.

The prosecution alleged that Solomon on the 24h of June 2023 at IYC, Azikoro Town in Yenagoa, did steal one baby success Alfred aged two (2) months old, the baby of Joy Lucky and thereby committed an offence punishable under section 298 (a) of Criminal Code law a Cap C14, laws of Bayelsa State 2006.

It was further revealed that Solomon who claimed to have had an affair with Joy during her early pregnancy at a brothel, is not the rightful father of the child.

However, Solomon pleaded not guilty to the two-count charge of Assault and Baby stealing

The court however sent him to 15 days in the Correctional facility before he will will appear at Magistrate court on July 18, 2023.

She said Solomon could either be bailed by a permanent Secretary under a salary structure of N500k or be remanded to the Correctional facility.

She adjourned the case till July 18, 2023.