The Taraba State Police Command has arrested
a 40-year-old man, Hayatu Ahmadu, for raping a
14-year-old boy, Hillary Kyara, at Nasarawa river
in Jalingo, the state capital.
Briefing journalists, on Tuesday, in Jalingo,
Commissioner of Police, David Akinremi, said the
Ahmadu attacked the victim while he was
washing at the river and subdued him, thereby
tying him up before taking him to a nearby bush
and forcefully having unnatural canal knowledge
of him.
Akinremi said that the suspect was arrested and
medical examination proven that he actually
forcefully raped the victim and assured that he
would soon be charged to court.
The command also paraded one Musa Jibrin, 30,
for rapping a 10-year-old girl, Zainab Abdullahi.
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Akinremi, who said the command had done
creditably well in the last two months, also
paraded over a hundred other suspects for
indulging other various crimes including armed
robbery, illegal possession of fire arms, criminal
conspiracy to commit culpable homicide and
others.
He said the command have recovered various
items stollen from people in the period under
review, including cash and items worth over
2.7m Naira stollen from the state Commissioner
of Justice, Yusufu Akirikwen, items stollen from
the Parish House, arms and ammunitions
including AK 47 riffles, both foreign and locally
made pistols and several rounds of ammunitions.
He added that most of the suspects had
admitted to have committed the crimes for which
they are charged, and are helping with
investigation, adding that while some have been
charged to court, investigation was ongoing into
some of the cases and the suspects would soon
be arraigned for prosecution.