A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) sitting in Kubwa has sentenced a former chief pharmacist of the National Hospital in Abuja to life imprisonment for sodomising a minor.
In a statement issued by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) on Tuesday, it was disclosed that the pharmacist, identified as Abubakar Mustapha Danraka, was convicted on Monday.
Danraka, who was the senior special adviser (Technical) to the director of the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development Council, was said to have committed the offence in March 2020.
According to the NAPTIP statement, Danraka had anal sex with a boy after he lured the minor who lived in the same estate with him in Abuja.
“In its efforts at implementing the Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act in the FCT, NAPTIP secured a landmark rape conviction.
“In a historic ruling and landmark judgment in the implementation of Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act presided over by Hon justice A. AKanbi-Yusuf of the FCT high court on Monday 18th September 2023, Dr Abubakar Danraka Ph.D was convicted for Rape (Sodomy) and sentenced to life Imprisonment under Section 1 of the VAPP act of 2015,” the statement said.
