The Bauchi State Police Command said on Thursday that it had arrested a 45-year-old man for allegedly defiling his 11-year-old daughter.
The state Police Commissioner, Lawal Shehu, while parading the suspect alongside others at the police headquarters in Bauchi on Thursday, expressed worry over the increasing rate of r*pe cases in the state.
He has vowed that all suspected rapists would be charged to court and prosecuted.
Mr. Lawal said Since January, they have arrested over 10 suspected rapists, “Only this week, we recorded over five cases, he added. It is worrisome that among the suspects arrested include a 45-year-old man who r*ped his 11 years old daughter and two aged men who are between 45 to 54 years who r*ped toddlers of between two and four years.
He continued by saying “Any suspect arrested in connection to r*pe would be charged to court and be prosecuted, r*pe suspects will not be bailable. Even when courts are on strike, the suspects will remain in detention till court resume and will be charge to court.”
Speaking to newsmen, the suspect, Abubakar Magaji, who resides in Liman Katagum in Bauchi Local Government Area of the state, said he engaged in the ugly act because his wife left him. The father of four confessed to have r*ped his daughter twice.
“I am ashamed of myself because it was temptation that led me to do it,” he said. “I divorced her mother and married another wife but unfortunately my wife also left me a month ago so I needed a woman to be with so that was why I did it.”
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