The Bauchi State Police Command has said that five adults above 40 years are in its custody for allegedly raping a minor in the Misua Local Government Area of the state.

Police Spokesman, CSP Ahmed Wakil, in a statement on Tuesday, said that the suspects, who admitted committing the crime, had canal knowledge of the girl at different times and separate locations.

He said that on August 12, Yusuf Muhammad and Dun’juma Muhammad reported at Misau Divisional headquarters that the suspects: Sulaiman Adamu (42), Umar Adamu (45) Musa Ibrahim (40), Shu’aibu Abubakar (47), all of Zadawa village, Misau LGA, individually use monetary incentives and lured their daughter into various places and “raped her deceitfully.”

According to Wakil, upon receipt of the report, detectives were immediately dispatched to the scene. “They evacuated the victim to Federal Medical Centre, Misau, for medical examination, while the alleged suspects were arrested for investigation.

“During interrogation, both suspects freely confessed to the alleged crime committed.

“Moreover the first suspect (Muhammad Sunusi) confessed to having nurtured the private part of the minor since she was at aged of 5 years, where the minor use to play in his house with their age mates and use that opportunity to influence the minor into his room and fingered her private part frequently, up to the level where he penetrates into the minor private part in different occasions.

“Also, the second suspect (Suleiman Adamu) confessed that he sometimes sat at the doorstep of his shop at Zadawa village, where the minor was passing by and marched his legs. He questioned her, but the minor disclosed that she was hungry.

“She needs N200 to buy food, but the suspect declined the request, which the minor offered herself to have sexual intercourse with her on condition of giving her the requested amount. He agreed and fulfilled with N500 naira as he promised after the sexual intimate each time on three different occasions, including his farm located at Zadawa village.

“Again, the third suspect (Musa Ibrahim) confessed to having taken advantage of the minor by asking him for money and luring her to a shop located at Zadawa and having carnal knowledge of her under the promise of giving her N500.”

“The fourth suspect (Umar Adamu) admitted and disclosed that he sometimes meets the minor by the roadside within Zadawa village when he was just back from Taraba State and asked for help of five hundred N500 naira and refused to give the money when the minor offered herself if he was interested. The suspect promises to give the requested amount if the minor cooperates well and subsequently had canal knowledge with the minor under the influence of the promise.

“Also, the fifth suspect (Shu’aibu Abubakar) confessed that he had the story of the minor from his friend (Musa Ibrahim), who gave him the complete history of how the minor was seeking money and had intercourse with several people. Thereafter, the suspect approached the minor, had intercourse with her, and gave her N500.”

Wakil further said that following a medical examination conducted at the Federal Medical Centre, Misau, the findings read that the victim was penetrated with some seminal fluid within her vulva and private part.

He said that the Commissioner of Police, CP Sani-Omolori Aliyu, has ordered the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the State Criminal Investigation Department, Bauchi, to thoroughly investigate the case and charge the matter to court. The command vowed to leave no stone unturned in this circumstance. (The Guardian)