Yobe Police Nab Four For Allegedly Raping Two Minors

The Police Command in Yobe on Monday said it had arrested four men for allegedly gang-raping a 13-year minor in the state.

The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Dungus Abdulkarim, uncovered this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Damaturu.

Dungus said “three of the alleged rapists, Musa Mohammed, 25, Mohammed Dahiru, 27, Adamu Saidu, 46, were arrested on December 25 by men of Potiskum Divisional Police Headquarters for allegedly gang-raping an underage girl.

According to Mr Abdulkarim; The rapists took advantage of Christmas break to lure the poor girl into Brema Primary School in the town and reportedly defiled her.

It is no longer new that the incessant increase of rape cases specifically in different regions of the country is alarming. With over 200 rape cases in the north.

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Eko Hot Blog gathered that On 26th June, the Katsina Police Command reportedly arrests 40 suspected rapists. And also the Geidam Divisional Police Headquarters had on December 26, arrested Bako Umaru, 35, for allegedly abducting and raping an 11-year-old girl at Hausari area, inflicting severe injury on her private part.

The truth is that, there is no safe space for women and girls anymore in Nigeria. Every second, every minute, every hour, every day, and girls face different forms of sexual harassment and gender-based violence in the forms of rape, defilement, trafficking, domestic abuse, female genital cuttings/female circumcision, early and forced marriage, widowhood practices, including denial of inheritance rights, torture, acid attack, abandonment without means of livelihood. It is now an epidemic in the Covid- 19 era.

However, the Yobe State Police command has taken the bait to embark on “discreet” investigation, assuring the general public that the perpetrators would be prosecuted in due course.