A youth, Muhammed Zubairu, has been brought before a court in the Adamawa State capital, Yola, for allegedly getting his girlfriend pregnant and forcing her to commit abortion which led to her death.

The 21-year-old Muhammed, a photographer, has admitted to the Chief Magistrate Court 1, Yola, to impregnating his girlfriend, Miss Sane Fidelis, as well as causing her death by giving her medicine to flush out the developing baby.

Muhammed who is of Sabon Pegi in Mayo-Belwa Local Government Area of southern Adamawa, allegedly conspired with one other man now at large to procure the abortion drug and to administer it on the girl, which has now caused her life.

Muhammed was arraigned for “criminal conspiracy and causing death by an act done with an intent to cause abortion which contravenes sections 60 and 204 of the penal code law.”

The court heard that after administering the drugs with an intention of killing the baby, Miss Sane Fidelis developed complications and then died at the Specialist Hospital in Yola.

The matter was earlier reported to the police in Mayo Belwa LGA by the deceased’s sister, Siyona Fidelis, earlier this month, November 4, following which the police arrested the accused person.

The accused told newsmen that he had sexual intercourse with the deceased on three occasions and that when the girl approached him with the pregnancy, he and his friend supplied some drugs in order to terminate it.

He similarly confessed to the court that he committed the crime as alleged.

In his ruling, Chief Magistrate Alheri Ishaku ordered the remand of the defendant in prison custody.

He then adjourned the case to December 13, 2021.