Two commercial sex workers have been arraigned before a Kano Magistrates’ Court for allegedly seducing a man and stabbing him eventually in a hotel room.

The defendants, Maryam Isah and Badiya Sani, were also alleged to have tried to extort Abubakar Dauda the sum of N3,000.

The judge, Farouk Ibrahim-Umar, ordered that the defendants be remanded in a correctional centre.

The defendants, who live at Sabon Gari Quarters, Kano, are standing trial on a two-count charge of criminal conspiracy and causing grievous hurt.

The prosecutor, Aminu Dandago, told the court that one Dauda at Goron Dutse Quarters, Kano, reported the matter at Sabon Gari police station on June 21.

Dandago alleged that on the same date at about 6:30 a.m, the first defendant, Isah, boarded the tricycle from Goron Dutse to Sabon Gari.

He said: “On reaching Sabon Gari, the first defendant lured the tricyclist into her hotel room and conspired with the second defendant.

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“The defendants locked the room and forced the complainant to give them the sum of N3,000.

“In the process, the defendants stabbed the tricyclist with a sharp object on his right hand, as a result, he sustained serious injury and was rushed to Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital, Kano for treatment.”

The defendants, however, denied committing the offence.

The prosecutor said the offence contravened sections 97 and 246 of the Penal Code.

Ibrahim-Umar, therefore, adjourned the matter until July 21, 2022, for continuation.

The Star