55-year-old security man caught raping a minor

A 55 years old Security Man, Mohammed Sani have been apprehended for sleeping with a 14 year old girl in Minna, Niger state.

Sani who is a Security man with a popular car wash, Clean-Clean Car Wash located opposite the Federal Secretariat in Minna was caught in the act of sleeping with the girl identified as Amina in the car wash toilet.

 According to Amina who is a groundnut cake (kuli-kuli) hawker, the Security Man have been having carnal knowledge with her for over six months adding that it started when she saw a hawker going into the toilet with the security man and when she asked what went on there, Sani invited her into the toilet and had carnal knowledge with her and it have continued from then on.

 She disclosed that after each escapade, Sani gives her between N300 to N500 stating that she was not the only one he was sleeping with. When asked why she did not report the case, Amina said she felt she was grown up and can take care of herself and since other hawkers were doing it, she felt there was no problem in doing it.

 The Director General of the Niger State Child Rights Agency, Barrister Mariam Kolo said that the Agency received a call that the security man was having carnal knowledge with an underage girl and on getting to the car wash, they caught Sani in the act.

 She lamented on the molestation of child hawkers in the state adding that the agency is working out ways to minimize the level of child hawking in the state.

 Kolo urged parents to always examine their children after hawking to know if they are intact and to regulate the time of the hawking cautioning on the need for child hawkers to hawk in groups if need be.

 She declared that the agency would ensure that justice is done regarding the incident adding that the accused would be handed to the CID for further investigation and if possible, the other victims would be unraveled.

The accused, Sani who accepted that he was wrong asked for forgiveness saying it was the handiwork of the devil. He pleaded that the matter should not be taken further adding that he would not want his wife and children who lives in Zamfara state to know about the matter.