Bauchi police arrest two vigilantes for allegedly raping housewife

Police in Bauchi State have arrested two vigilantes for allegedly raping a housewife at gunpoint in Ningi Local Government Area.

The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Ahmed Wakil, in a statement on Tuesday, said another 27-year-old man was also arrested for defiling a 3-year-old girl in Jimbin Village of Ganjuwa Local Government.

The PPRO informed journalists that the incidents happened on the 24 and 25 of August 2022.

He noted that vigilantes are Lawali Sule (30 years) and Babangida Shehu (30 years), all of Dogon-ruwa village.

 “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,” he said.

According to Wakil, one Mato Yohannah, 27 years of Jimbin Village, Ganjuwa LGA was arrested by the detectives of Ganjuwa Divisional headquarters after he had had carnal knowledge of a 3-year-old girl of the same village.

He said that all three suspects confessed to having committed the crimes after grilling.

He said that the Command would be charging them to court for prosecution.