An Area Court sitting at Centre-Igboro, Ilorin, has committed an 18-year-old boy, Mustapha Aminu, to a Borstal facility for juveniles for keeping bad company and taking hard drugs.
Delivering judgment in a case brought against Aminu, on Tuesday in Ilorin, the trial judge, Mr Toyin Aluko, held that Aminu should spend the next one year in the Borstal Training Institute, Ganmo Area.
“While there, he should either continue his education or learn any vocation of his choosing.
“Mustapha Aminu should be committed to the institute for one year to enable him further his education and learn any vocation of his choice,” Aluko said
Earlier, Mr Dare Ishola, a staff of the Borstal Training Institute, had told the court that the defendant’s’ elder brother, Bashiru Aminu, approached the institute and sought its assistance in respect of the defendant’s condition.
Ishola said that the boy’s brother reported that Mustapha often displayed unruly behaviour after smoking marijuana and other hard drugs.
The official said that Bashiru Aminu also claimed that Mustapha had stopped going to school and was always in the company of bad friends and refused to listen to his parents’.
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