{"id":166566,"date":"2019-11-09T11:15:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T10:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=166566"},"modified":"2019-11-09T11:22:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T10:22:51","slug":"two-old-men-rape-11-year-old-primary-school-girl-in-kebbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=166566","title":{"rendered":"Two old men rape 11-year-old primary school girl in Kebbi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/How-my-father-raped-me-my-sisters-at-knifepoint-Teenagers-tell-court.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Two elderly men have been arrested by the Kebbi State Police Command for an alleged rape of 11-year-old primary school pupil in Gwandu Local Area of the state.<\/p>\n<p>News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the girl, (name withheld), was lured by the men while at school, in Oct. 31 to an unknown location and had canal knowledge of her.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with NAN, the Director General of Kebbi Concerned Citizens (KCC), Alhaji Ibrahim Muhammed, who reported the case to the state Police Command, said the suspects would soon be taken to court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn eleven year old girl was allegedly molested and raped by 70-year-old and 50-year-old men in Gwandu town, Gwandu Local Government Area of Kebbi state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspects, who are currently under investigation by the Police in the state, are said to have confessed to the crime. Medical report has also confirmed that the girl was actually raped and principal witnesses are available,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the attention of KCC was drawn to the incident by some residents in Gwandu town when they saw signs of the case being frustrated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur intervention in the matter was not only to accelerate full-scale investigation into the issue but to also facilitated more revelation and arrests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow all arrangements to move the matter to court have been made.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKCC is using this medium to call on all relevant\/ concerned agencies and public to be more proactive in rising up against this ugly and negative social vices,\u201d the director said.<\/p>\n<p>He commended the state Police Command and the management of the school attended by the victim for the role they played in ensuring that justice was done.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Nafiu Abubakar, confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe investigation is still ongoing and we will get back to you with more details on the matter,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two elderly men have been arrested by the Kebbi State Police Command for an alleged rape of 11-year-old primary school pupil in Gwandu Local Area of the state. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the girl, (name withheld), was lured by the men while at school, in Oct. 31 to an unknown location and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,1,3],"tags":[30,4866,443,406,7374],"class_list":["post-166566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-more","category-news","tag-arewa","tag-crime","tag-kebbi","tag-rape","tag-rape-victim"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/163720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}