LAFIA, Nigeria (The Informant247) – Two people have been arrested for ‘raping’ a 14-year-old girl to a coma in Nigeria’s Nasarawa state, police and locals said.
The two arrested suspects armed with machetes, cutlasses, sticks and other dangerous objects, invaded the residence of their victim in Kwarra community, Wamba local government area, on Monday night and forcefully took her to a bush in the area where she was raped to a state of unconsciousness, a source from the community told newsmen.
The source said, “Three gunmen said to be herders came to the victim’s abode and forcefully took her to a bush where they gang-raped her till she passed out. They were held knives and sharp objects capable of killing a person. The assailants stabbed and raped her to unconsciousness. It is a sad situation as she couldn’t get any assistant to save her from the hands of the hooligans while the immoral act was carried out.”
State police spokesperson Ramhan Nansel confirming the incident to reporters on Wednesday in Lafia, the state capital, said that two herdsmen had been apprehended in connection to the crime.
He said, “What happened in Kwarra community of Wamba LGA is indeed a sad situation. The girl was at her family house on Monday night when two herdsmen, who are residents of the community namely; Umar Shehu ‘M’, 19 years, and Dare Bello ‘M’, 18 years, went to their house and took her to a bush where she was gang-raped.
“The herdsmen were armed with cutlasses and sticks, and they were able to carry out the act because the girl’s father was sick and there was no other person to help her at that time. But as soon as the information got to the police, we quickly deployed our personnel to go rescue the girl and apprehend the perpetrators of the act.
“When our officers got to the scene of the crime, the gil was immediately taken to a hospital for treatment and based on the available information at my disposal; two herdsmen have been arrested in connection to the crime.”