Kebbi: Gang allegedly kidnaps 17-year-old girl, rapes and strangles her to death
Police in Kebbi have arrested a suspect for allegedly abducting and raping a 17-year-old girl, identified as Zara’u Buhari, to death.
The victim was the daughter of a senior staff of Kebbi State Ministry of Finance, Leadership reports.
Reports say the men, numbering four and armed with some dangerous weapons, kidnapped Zara’u, before raping her severally and finally strangling her to death.
Zara’u was said to be on her way to her elder sister’s house to spend the night around 8pm before she was waylaid.
The daredevils, led by one Aliyu Sarkin Mata, killed her due to fear of being identified by their victim, reports say.
Her body was discovered three days after she was murdered.
The victim’s father, Bello Buhari, expressed his shock at the incident.
He said, “When the incident happened, I was not aware but was later informed that Zara’u could not be seen. She often visits her sister to keep her company in the absence of the sister’s husband.
“But my son called to inform me that Zara’u is missing, so I left the city and rushed to the village. As a matter of fact, I arrived Kimba around 10 pm and I met a group of sympathizers at my house in the village all looking worried.
“We got information that somebody who took the girl on a motorcycle was spotted at Alelu village, some two to three kilometers away from Kimba village where my daughter was kidnapped.
“We also got additional information that somebody, probably one of the criminals, advised the first suspect who kidnapped the girl to allow her to go free because the girl may have come from a decent family but he refused.
“Her lifeless body was dumped in the bush by the criminals in a bid to cover up for the evil deed but luck ran out on the miscreants as they were arrested by the police and detained at the Police Headquarters in Birnin Kebbi, the state capital.”
The state Commissioner of Police, CP Kabiru Ibrahim confirmed the arrest of one of the suspects, assuring that justice would be served.
