Jigawa NSCDC Nabs Man For Sodomising Nine-year-old Boy

The Operatives of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Jigawa Command, has nabbed one Isyaku Lawal of 23-year-old, for allegedly sodomising a nine-year-old boy in Jigawa State.

The agency’s Public Relations Officer, in the person of CSC Adamu Shehu, made this know in a statement signed and issued out on the agency’s Facebook handle on Wednesday.

According to the statement, the father of the victim revealed that his daughter, an elder sister to the victim, reported to him that her sibling was sexually abused by the suspect.

The statement partly read,

“Upon questioning, the boy stated that he was taken to an isolated place in the evening while he was playing alongside his friends by the suspect who removed his trousers and had canal knowledge of him, and thereafter urged him not to tell anyone and promised to buy him sweets, a promise which he failed to fulfill and which made him expose the incident to his sister.

“Meanwhile, medical examinations conducted at Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) at General Hospital Dutse shows repeated rectal penetrations and bruises in the anal area.

“Suspect has confessed to the crime and will be charged to court of competent jurisdiction to expedite justice.”