Vigilantes have arrested two men, Rabiu Bala and Nasiru Shehu, for allegedly gang-raping a 15-year-old hawker in the Kusaki community of the Kuje Area Council in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
Samaila Yakubu, a vigilante member from the area, said the suspects were apprehended yesterday following a report from the victim’s parents, reports Daily Trust.
He stated that the victim’s mother and her son brought the girl to the vigilante office to report the incident.
He explained that the girl returned home crying, which made her mother suspicious.
Yakubu said the parents later discovered that the victim, who hawks a local rice delicacy known as Garau-Garau, was allegedly raped by the two suspects at an apartment in the area.
According to Yakubu, the victim went to demand payment from the suspects who had bought the Garau-Garau from her on credit, adding that during the interaction, one of the suspects lured her into an apartment and allegedly raped her.
“On getting to where the suspects, who are commercial motorcyclists, reside, one of them picked up his bike and zoomed off but was flagged down,” he said.
He confirmed that both men confessed to the crime during interrogation. They were immediately arrested and handed over to the police in Kuje.
He added that vigilantes later joined the police at a hospital where doctors confirmed that the girl had been penetrated.
A police source at the Kuje division, who preferred anonymity, confirmed the incident but said the matter is still under investigation.
