Hassan Muhammad, a 52-year-old man based in Maje village on the outskirt
of Suleja, Niger State, has been arrested by the State Police Command
for allegedly abducting a 14-year-old boy and sodomising him for two
months before he was rescued, Daily Trust reports.
The Sokoto
State born Muhammad, a trader and father of seven, was first arrested by
members of the Suleja Emirate Vigilante operating in the area before he
handed over to the Suleja Police Area Command, where he was currently
being held.
The victim, who is currently on admission at the
Suleja General Hospital, told reporters that Muhammad met him two months
ago at Lambata village along Suleja-Minna road, where he lives with an
Islamic instructor as an Almajiri at the cleric’s informal school.
During
the encounter, the boy said Muhammad lured him to join him in his
business of selling dresses at Maje, where he has a shop and the boy
seeing an opportunity in the horizon, agreed to go with him.
The the suspect took him to a village market where he sold his wares and they then returned to his base.
The victim further alleged that Muhammad used to have homosexual sex with him inside his shop.
He
said on the first night, he woke up to find himself half-Unclad with
the man beside him cleaning his private part. The victim further
disclosed that the man usually locked him in the shop anytime he was
away but always together in the shop whenever he was around.