LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – Operatives of the Edo State Police Command have arrested a 28-year-old truck conductor, Abdurazak Ibrahim, for alleged sexual assault on a 15-year- old girl in Edo State.
The incident is said to have occurred on 13 September at Uromi in Esan South East Local Council of the State.
Parading the suspect, the command’s spokesperson, Chidi Nwabuzor, said the father of the victim, Tony Ekata, reported to the Police that Ibrahim sexually assaulted his daughter.
Nwabuzor said the suspect, who is a truck motor boy, called the victim while she was hawking groundnuts along Ivue-Irrua Road, with pretence to buy some groundnuts from her.
“The suspect attacked and pushed her inside the vehicle and forcefully had sex with her. The Police stormed the scene afterwards and arrested the suspect.
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“The suspect confessed to the crime, while the victim was taken to the hospital for medical examination,” he said.
“The suspect would soon be charged to court as soon as the investigation is completed,”he added.
In an interview with journalists, the suspect, who hails from Oyo State, denied the allegation, saying he was falsely accused.
Meanwhile, a Lagos Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court sitting was on Wednesday, briefed on how a truck driver, Bashiru Mamuda, allegedly sexually assaulted and impregnated a 17-year-old student of Navy Town Junior Secondary School.
The survivor recounted her experience before Justice Abiola Soladoye during an ongoing trial of the suspect over the charge filed against him by the State Government.
In her testimony, she told the court that the incident took place in her mother’s shop when she was 16 years old.
