A 30-year-old man identified as Mohammed Babangida has been arrested and paraded by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) for raping a 9-year-old girl.
WITHIN NIGERIA learnt that the arrested rape suspect committed the offence on October 10 at Damare community in Yola South Local Government Area of Adamawa.
The rape suspect was apprehended by NSCDC operatives after being linked to the sad act by Damara residents.
According to the state Commander of the NSCDC, Nurudeen Abdullahi disclosed that the suspect will be charged to court through the intervention and advice by the Director of Prosecution (DPP), state Ministry of Justice, which we always partner with on capital offence that amounts to prosecution“.
While parading the rape suspect before reporters, Babangida confessed to the crime and revealed that he gave the girl N50 and N20 on two respective occasions and tried raping her when they met for the third time after giving her N50.
“I started but I did not finish,” he said, adding that someone knocked on the door and that was how it ended.
He asked for leniency, saying, “I have not done it before and I will not try it again. I have wife and children. Government should pity me and not ruin my family.”