The Yobe Say Police Picture said it has arrested one 25-year-aged Lawan Saidu, of Tudun Wada, Potiskum Native Authorities Region, for raping a 13-year-aged girl.
The Picture’s Public Relatives Officer DSP Dungus Abdulkarim disclosed this in an announcement issued to newsmen on Tuesday.
The suspect, reportedly, earlier had a bootleg affair with the mum of the sufferer.
“The sufferer reported the threat to her father which finally ended in the divorce of the mum.
“The suspect modified into wild and developed hobby in opposition to the sufferer after which determined to transfer his aggression on her by attacking her within the dwelling after her father left for his store on twentieth September 2023 at about 2030hrs”, he said.
According the police spokesperson, the suspect later raped the 13-year-aged.
He, on the opposite hand, eminent that investigation is currently ongoing on the Say CID, Damaturu, after which the suspect will face prosecution.
Abdulkarim added that the sufferer has been handled and discharged from health middle.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police (CP) in Yobe Say, Garba Ahmad, has urged the of us of the relate to be attentive to scrupulous parts within the society and file them to the nearest police set.
While advocating stiffer sanctions in opposition to rapists, the CP tasked officers and men of the Picture to constantly bag sure genuine investigation and diligent prosecution of perpetrators.
“Justice may perhaps presumably presumably well peaceable no longer finest be accomplished, nonetheless be seen to had been accomplished”, the CP added.