SAN FRANCISCO, September 06, (THEWILL) – The Police in Bauchi State have confirmed the arrest of a suspected serial rapist, Yusuf Bako, who allegedly defiled a four-year- old girl in a mosque.
In a statement by the Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Bauchi Police Command, Ahmed Wakil said, the police team rescued Bako from an angry mob after he had sustained injuries. According to Wakil, the suspect had been jailed for rape in 2001 and 2015, and that he was one of the convicts pardoned and released as part of the measures to decongest the prisons in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“On the 03/09/2020 at about 11:30hrs, one Jamilu Abdullahi ‘M’ of Igbo quarters reported at the Township Police Station that, on same date at about 09:20hrs, an angry mob were beating an unknown person at Aminu Street, after which a team of police officers moved to the scene and rescued the suspect with various degrees of injuries and was taken to hospital for treatment.
“The suspect whom we identified as Yusuf Bako, ‘M’ aged 50 years of Yakubu Wanka Street, Bauchi, allegedly lured a four-year-old girl (names withheld) to a Mosque located at Aminu Street and had carnal knowledge of her. Yusuf Bako confessed to the crime. When interrogated he stated that he was arrested and imprisoned in the year 2001 and 2015 for the same offence. He further claimed that he was among the fortunate inmates recently pardoned by the state on the eve of coronavirus”, the statement added.
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