The Nigeria Police, Bauchi State Command has arrested two operatives of the local vigilantes for allegedly raping a housewife at gunpoint in Ningi Local Government Area of the State.
In a statement which was issued on Tuesday by the Force Public Relations Officer, Ahmed Wakil and made available to journalists in Bauchi said, the arrested suspects have been detained for investigations.
The statement also revealed that another man, aged 27 was also arrested for defiling a 3-year old girl in Jimbin Village of Ganjuwa Local Government.
These incidents, the Police said, took place between 24 and 25 of August, 2022.
The vigilante members, according to the PPRO, are Lawali Sule (30 years) Babangida Shehu (30 years) all of Dogon-ruwa village.
The PPRO added that, “On 25th August, 2022 at about 0200hrs, the two suspects who were all armed, conspired, stormed the house of one Alhaji Gare and broke into his wife’s room, one Hadiza Alhaji (not real name).
“They asked for her husband’s whereabouts but he was not at home. Thereafter, they threatened her with dane-guns with the view to have carnal knowledge of her. She succumbed out of fear.”
Wakil also said that one Mato Yohannah, 27 years of Jimbin Village, Ganjuwa LGA was arrested by the detectives of Ganjuwa Divisional headquarters after he had carnal knowledge of a-3-year old of the same village.
