Jigawa State Police Command says it has charged 53 people to court over rape and sodomy in the last three weeks.
Commissioner of Police, Henry Fadairo, in a chat with journalists in Dutse, the state capital, said that less than one month after he took over leadership of the command, he has charged the 53 suspects to court over 28 rape incidents and 25 sodomy allegations.
He said: “I have started parading them publicly in order to make their prosecution a deterrent to others,” he stated.
“The father of the 10-year-old girl reported at the Gumel Police Station that he saw his daughter holding some money. When he asked how she got the money, the girl said that one Mohammed Abdullahi, a 40-year-old man, took her to his room and raped her after which he gave her money.
“The father of the girl said another man, identified as 25-year old Nasiru Mohammed forced the same girl into an uncompleted building and raped her again.
“The girl told her father that the first man who raped her (Abdullahi) had also raped her 10-year-old friend. The father of the second victim also reported the case.
“The culprits confessed to their crimes, revealing that they had raped the girls on many times.”
The CP stated that in Garki Local Government Area of the state, a mother of an eight-year-old girl reported to the police that when her daughter was on her way to school, the Village Head of Kargo village, Abubakar Ya’u, a 60-year-old man, waylaid the girl and took her to his room where he raped her.
He also disclosed that another suspect charged to court was 40-year-old Idris Abdu, who was reported at the Hadejia Police Station to have taken a nine-year-old girl to his room and raped her.
