The Lagos State
Police Command has arrested a 34-year-old trader, Mallam Isiaka, for allegedly
raping a nine-year-old boy in the Iju
area of the state.
PUNCH Metro learnt that Isiaka was arrested and detained on
Saturday by the Iju Police Division after the victim, Christopher, (pseudonym),
complained about pains in the anus to his mother.
Christopher, a
primary 1 pupil, who stayed with his family on Coker Alhaja Street, Old Akute
Road, Iju, was said to have opened up to his mother that Isiaka allegedly raped
him through the anus at different times when she sent him to buy items from the
trader.
Our correspondent
gathered that the boy was taken to the Mirabel Centre for tests which revealed
that the boy had been slept with through the anus. Further tests to ascertain
infections were carried out on him.
The mother
thereafter reported the matter at the police station and Isiaka was arrested on
Saturday.
PUNCH Metro learnt that Christopher also told his mother that he
could not open up on the incident because the suspect allegedly threatened that
he (Christopher) would die if he reported anything to his parents.
Speaking with PUNCH
Metro, a neighbour, who identified herself only as Olawumi, said the
parents first became suspicious when Christopher was sent on an errand
penultimate Monday and he came back with his pants soaked after staying longer
than usual.
She said, “Isiaka
sells items across the road in his shop. The boy’s parents used to send him on
errands to the shops. He bought household items like sugar, milk and biscuits
from Isiaka. We call him mallam.
“It was on
Saturday that the boy got the courage to open up on the incident. The boy said
mallam had been raping him in his shop anytime he ran errands for his parents.
“The boy said the
mallam warned him that if he opened up to his mother, he was going to die. The
mother calmed him that he was not going to die as the mallam threatened.
“About two Mondays
ago, the boy came back from school and he was asked to go and buy items from
the shop. He came back with his pants soaked. He later confessed that the
mallam had raped him about eight times.”
Another neighbour,
who gave his name as Chukwuka, said, “The mallam is not known with any wife
though he has stayed long in this area. The baffling thing is how he did it
eight times and nobody caught him for once in the shop.
“The boy went to
the hospital on Sunday and the tests came out positive that he had been raped.
“The mallam is
still denying it, but the boy insisted that it was him and the tests had also
confirmed the assault.”
Christopher’s
mother, who did not want her name in print, said the boy’s anus was wider than
hers, and if not for her persistence, her son would not have opened up as he
was afraid of the mallam.
She said, “We have
gone to the hospital and they have given him some drugs. We were supposed to go
to the hospital again.
“If you see my
boy’s anus, it is no longer like a child’s. It is wider than my own.
Ordinarily, he is an agile child, but he suddenly became cold recently. If not
for the Spirit of God, I would not know since he is not a girl. I would never
think anyone could be raping my boy.”
The Police Public
Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, confirmed Isiaka’s arrest, adding that the
case had been transferred to the Isokoko division for prosecution.
She said, “The
suspect was arrested for allegedly defiling the nine-year-old boy.
“The case is now
at the Isokoko division where we have the Family Support Unit which handles
cases of domestic and sexual violence. Justice will be done in the matter.”
Source: Punch Newspaper
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