Niger state command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corp (NSCDC) has arrested some syndicates who are involved in manhood mutilation, gang raping of minors, assaulting and other criminal activities in Pandogari area of Rafi Local Goverment Area of the State.
The syndicates who are Cooling their feet at the detention facility of the state NSCDC headquarters in Minna based on gathered intelligence.
They were arrested by crack plain clothes Operatives of the NSCDC attached to the Rafi Divisional Command headquarters of the corps through a verifiable intelligence gathering mechanism put in place by the Divisional Command.
Addressing the Journalists at the Command headquarters along David Mark Road in Minna, the Niger State capital on Tuesday, the commandant of the corps Mr. Joachim Okafor explained that, as part of the mandate of the corps to ensure the protection of critical National assets and infrastructures, safe school initiatives, and the Protection of lives and properties, the command effected the arrest of the syndicates.
The commandant who was represented at the briefing by the Deputy Commandant of the corps in the state DCC Abdulhameed Kabara disclosed that a thirteen years old Junior Secondary school JSS 1 girl (name withheld), of Day Secondary school in Pandogari was gang raped by the syndicates after drugging her with a substance.
The other syndicates members were identified as Aliyu Amiru 20 years of age, Suleiman Abubakar Gambo 19 years old, Yusuf Mallam Murtala 22 years old all according to the Deputy Commandant were residents of Pandogari area of Rafi Local government area of Niger State.
According to the Deputy Commandant of the NSCDC, on Thursday the 2nd of May 2024, the Principal of the School, informed the Operatives of the Corps, about the ugly activities of the syndicates ” and a strategy was perfected, by using the victim as bait, worked out perfectly, as one of the syndicate was threatening the girl’s life was arrested.
” The arrested syndicate was identified as Aliyu Amiru a twenty years old, in the course of our Investigation another person involved in the heinous crime was also arrested.
” The thirteen years old girl further revealed that Aliyu Amiru and his syndicate members abducted her some time in 2022, blind folded and took her to an uncompleted building at the outskirts of the town.
“Where they took turns to gang raped her while she was still in captivity, a little boy of less than two years old manhood was also chopped off”
” She was asked to cooperate, otherwise she would be treated with the same fate as the boy.
She was laid flat on the ground and a needle like substance was used in pricking the surroundings of her navel and lower abdomen” he told Journalists
He further told Journalists that the mutilated genitalia of the little boy was rubbed over the pierced area of her navel, mixing her blood and that of the boy after which he disclosed that the mutilated genital was dropped inside a little sack, adding that the girl managed to escape and they Chase her but they stopped chasing her when she ran into a graveyard.
He said they all confessed that the reason they involve in the dastardly act was ” because one Baba Dad’s requested them to bring a male child’s genitali to be use for a charm with assurance that the charm will protect them against any dangerous weapons such as bullet, matchet, dagger, knives
They admitted to have received a total sum of Five Thousand naira only for the job.
The being of capital in nature was however transferred to intelligence and Investigation Unit of the state command headquarters for discreet Investigation and after the syndicates will all be charge to court for Prosecution.
