Operatives of
Nasarawa State Command of
the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Wednesday paraded five
suspects for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl.
Mr Andekin Musa,
the state Commandant, said the suspects, were labourers working at a
construction site in Doma Local Government market.
He said four of
the suspects had on Jan. 30, lured the girl into an uncompleted building beside
the Doma market and took turns to rape her.
“The suspects
raped her in an uncompleted building near the market. They lured her into the
building saying they would buy her water but instead raped her,” Andekin said.
The commandant
explained that the four suspects after their arrest implicated the fifth
suspect who also confessed to raping the girl.
Musa said that
officers of the command in Doma on a tip-off on Feb. 1 arrested two of the
suspects near Tudun Laraba community in Doma.
He said the
other three suspects were later arrested on the same day from the Doma market.
“The rape took
place on Jan. 30, while their arrest was on Feb. 1. They are all around and
they have all confessed to committing the offence.” he said.
Musa said the
suspects, Wada Mohammed (37), Tanko Adamu (36), Abubakar Ogachi (40), Yusuf
Ogar (35) and Samaila Ali (35) would be prosecuted after investigation had
been concluded.
“From our investigation,
the suspects have been in the habit of raping underage girls and we have been
receiving reports of similar cases in that area,” he said.
One of the
suspects, Samaila, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the devil
pushed him to commit the crime as it was not in his habit to rape women.
“I have a wife
and three children and I have never done this kind of thing before. It is the
devil that pushed me to do it,” he said.
The father of
the girl, Malam Umar Mohammed, thanked the NSCDC for promptly arresting the
suspects and expressed optimism that justice would be done.
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