YOLA — Adamawa State Police Command says it has recorded no fewer than 25 cases of rape and defilement between January and June 2021 in the state.
DSP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, the spokesman of the command, who disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Yola, said that 16 of the victims were minors and nine adults.
He added that all the suspects, who were mostly from within the neighbourhoods, had been charged to court.
He warned those engaged in such dastardly acts to stop, as any person caught would face the full wrath of the law.
Nguroje advised parents and caregivers to take good care of their children, especially the girl-child, to shield them from rapists.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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