Mechanic in prison for abducting, raping 13 year-old girl for 5 days

A 28-year-old mechanic is being held in prison for reportedly abducting a 13-year-old girl and raping her in captivity for five days. The accused was on Wednesday remanded in prison by a magistrate court in Lokoja, Kogi State.

The accused, Abdulkadir Salihu, was said to have enticed the girl into his house and kept her for up to five days during which he had sex with her.

The police prosecutor, Corporal Ubi Ubana, told the court that one Adama Ibrahim of Galilee Street, Lokoja reported the matter at the ‘A’ Division Police headquarters and Department of Criminal Investigation, Lokoja on October 23.

Ibrahim had alleged that on the afternoon of October 16, he sent the girl, who happened to be his niece, to buy Okro from Adankolo New Layout Market, Lokoja when the accused “enticed her into his house on Agbai Street.”

He said that: “During the period, he had sex with his captive for several times before releasing her on October 20”.

A DailyPost report said that Ubana, urged the court to remand the accused in Koton-Karfe prisons, in view of the enormity of his offence.

In her ruling, the senior magistrate, Mrs Joyce Abdulmalik, ordered that the accused be remanded at the Medium Security Federal Prisons, Koton-Karfe while the matter was adjourned to November 10 for mention.