IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE OF SOKOTO STATE IN THE SOKOTO JUDICIAL DIVISION HOLDEN AT SOKOTO ON TUESDAY 14TH DAY OF JUNE 2022 BEFORE HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE MALAMI UMAR DOGON DAJI(JUDGE) SUIT NO: SS/54C/2021 BETWEEN THE STATE..……………..…………..…….……………….…COMPLAINANT AND NASIRU YAKUBU…………………………………………………DEFENDANT APPEARANCE: H. B. Dogondaji – for the prosecution. S. Ovia – for the defendant. JUDGMENT On the 9th day of November 2021 the defendant was arraigned before this Hon. Court on a count charge of rape contrary to section 260(1) of the Sokoto state penal code 2019. The charge against the defendant reads as follows: “That you Nasiru Yakubu (M) of Unguwar Rogo Area, Sokoto south LGA of Sokoto state on or about 1600hrs at Unguwar Rogo Sokoto south LGA of Sokoto state within the Sokoto Judicial Division did commit the offence of rape in that you deceitfully and deliberately lured one Nana 1