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The Bauchi State Police Command has arrested two males for allegedly sodomising a 12-year-old boy.
The spokesperson of the command, CSP Ahmed Mohammed Wakil, disclosed this in an announcement on Tuesday.
He mentioned police have arrested the suspects, Lukman Mohammed and Musa Halilu, following a grievance by the sufferer’s father
Based on the Police Public Relations Workplace, Mohammed and Halilu and one other fleeing suspect recognized merely as Alkasim, lured the minor into their dwelling the place they subjected him to anal sexual activity.
The assertion learn, “On sixteenth July 2025, at about 1200 hours, Mr. Ibrahim Maikudi submitted a proper grievance to the ‘C’ Divisional Headquarters of the Bauchi Police Command relating to an alleged incident involving legal conspiracy and unnatural offences.
“The grievance detailed that Mr Maikudi found excrement on the trousers of his 12-year-old son. His spouse corroborated this statement, reporting having witnessed this prevalence on a number of events.
“Upon inquiry, the minor disclosed that he had been enticed by three people, recognized as Lukman Mohammed, 30, Musa Halilu, 32, and Alkasim, surname unknown.
“In response to the grievance, detectives have been dispatched to the situation, and the sufferer was referred to a specialist hospital in Bauchi for a medical examination. Consequently, two suspects have been apprehended, whereas the third particular person stays at giant.
“Preliminary investigations point out that an eyewitness, a watchman in proximity to the situation, voluntarily knowledgeable the police that he had noticed one of many suspects, Musa Halilu, pursuing the boy on two separate events.
“The watchman cautioned the boy to take care of a distance from the suspects. Shortly thereafter, he witnessed the boy approaching the suspects’ residence, at which level he intervened and reprimanded the boy.
“Following this incident, the boy’s mom inquired in regards to the reprimand, to which the watchman offered a proof. The boy subsequently knowledgeable his mom that he had been influenced and lured by the suspects above into their dwelling, the place he was subjected to anal sexual activity.
“Commissioner of Police, CP Sani-Omolori Aliyu, psc (+), mni, has directed the Deputy Commissioner of Police in control of the State Prison Investigation Division (SCID), Bauchi, to conduct a radical investigation and to make sure the apprehension of the remaining suspect,” the assertion added.
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