Businessman arraigned for deceitfully promising girl friend marriage

A businessman, Onyebuchi Nwufu, 31, was arraigned on Thursday in a Mararaba Grade 1 Area Court, Nasarawa State, for allegedly deceiving his girl friend that he would marry her.
The prosecutor, Corporal Friday Adaji, told the court that Chukwudi Alom, a girl friend to the accused, reported the matter at the ‘A’ Division Police Station, Mararaba on June 12.
Adaji said that sometimes in August 2014, the accused approached Alom for a relationship to which she accepted.
He alleged that the accused deceived the complainant to come and live with him as a wife, which she accepted.
“ They have been living together until May 28, when the accused packed his belongings to an unknown destination,’’ the prosecutor alleged.
He said that the complainant was carrying a seven-month old pregnancy.
The prosecutor said the accused left his girl friend with no money or food for two months.
He said that the offence committed by the accused contravened Section 383 of the Penal Code.
Section 383 prescribes a three-year jail term as penalty for offenders.
Nwufu, however, denied committing the offence.
He admitted that Alom had been staying with him, and that he didn’t run away after impregnating her.
“I left the house because there was a business I had to attend to. I am at fault for not telling her but I did not deceive her,” he said.
Section 383 prescribes a three-year jail term as penalty for offenders.
The Judge, Albert Maga, granted bail to the accused in the sum of N200,000 with one surety in like sum, and adjourned the case till June 25 for further hearing.