The Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) Niger State Command, has arrested a four-man syndicate for gang-raping a 13-year-old JSS 1 student in Pandogari town, Rafi Local Government Area of the state.CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>
The state commandant of the Corps in the state, Joachim Okafor, who disclosed this in Minna on Tuesday, May 7, 2024 while parading the suspects, said that the gang also allegedly cut off the *** of a three-year-old boy.
The suspects confessed that a witch doctor identified as Baba Sada, directed them to get the male genitals for a charm to make them immune to gun shot or knife attacks.
Okafor, who spoke through the Second-in-Command of the Niger State NSCDC, Abdulhamid Kabara, disclosed that luck ran against the suspects after the 13-year-old victim, Fatima Usman escaped from an uncompleted building they took her to in the outskirt of Pandogari.
“A girl of about 13 years old named Fatima Usman, a JSS 1 student of Government Day Secondary School Pandogari had an encounter with a gang of notorious boys who specialized in raping, maiming, and killing of school children. Fatima Usman reported the matter to the school principal, Mohammed Aketa, after having received several threats from one of the gang members,” he said.
“On Thursday, 2nd May 2024, the principal however informed the security operatives about the development and a strategy was put in place, using the girl as bait, it worked out perfectly as the man threatening the girl’s life was arrested. The arrested person identified himself as Aliyu Amiru, (M), 20 years of age, in the course of investigation mentioned other syndicate members
“Fatima Usman revealed that the arrested Aliyu Amiru and his syndicate members abducted her sometime in 2022, blindfolded and took her to an uncompleted building on the outskirts of the town. She added that the syndicate took turns in raping her and while she was still in captivity, a little boy of less than 2 years old was brought in and in her presence, his *** was cut off
“She was asked to cooperate; otherwise she would be met with the same fate as the boy’s. She was laid flat on the ground and a needle-like substance was used to prick the surroundings of her navel and lower abdomen, and the mutilated genitalia of the little boy were rubbed over the pierced area of her navel, mixing her blood and that of the boy, after which it was dropped inside a little sack. She however managed to escape and they chased her, but they stopped chasing her when she ran into a burial ground,” Kabara said.CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>
