NSCDC arrests 7 over rape of teenage girls in Zamfara, Edo

The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corp (NSCDC) in Zamfara State has arrested four persons for allegedly raping a 17-year-old girl in Gadar Bags area in Gusau. The suspects, identified as Safiyanu Ibrahim, Abdulmalik Abdullahi, Bello Umar and Shehu Ibrahim, are said to have confessed to committing the crime with one of them confirmed to […]

The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corp (NSCDC) in Zamfara State has arrested four persons for allegedly raping a 17-year-old girl in Gadar Bags area in Gusau.

The suspects, identified as Safiyanu Ibrahim, Abdulmalik Abdullahi, Bello Umar and Shehu Ibrahim, are said to have confessed to committing the crime with one of them confirmed to be HIV/AIDS positive.

Narrating the incident to Daily Trust, the victim said she was sent to charge a phone in the neighborhood when she was intercepted by two of them.

“One of them held my hijab and asked me to follow him to an empty house nearby. When I refused they lifted me up and bundled me into the house by force. I screamed for help but nobody was there to assist me.

“They warned me against raising alarm saying that if I continued shouting they would spend days raping me inside the house, therefore I have no option other than to obliged to their demand.

“But when they noticed that I would not give in to their evil sexual advancement one of them put a gag in my mouth and that was how they raped one after the other,” she said.

The Commandant of the NSCDC in the state, David Abe, said one of the shocking part of the incident was that one of the rapists is HIV/AIDS positive and the victim might have contracted the disease.

Also, operatives of the NSCDC in Edo have arrested three persons for allegedly raping a 14-year-old secondary school student in Benin.

The suspects, Osabuohien Aghimien, Osamudiamen Stephen and Victory Osayomwan, aged between 19 and 20 years were paraded alongside other suspects arrested for various crimes at the state headquarters of NSCDC.

Speaking with journalists, Aghimien denied raping the victim, claiming that the victim was his girlfriend and that he took her to the house of his friend to pass the night, adding that “it was at night that his friends asked to sleep with the victim and she obliged them.

“My friend wanted to give her money but I said no. It was the next day when I went to their house that I was arrested.”