Police arrest five men for raping minor in Bauchi

The Bauchi State Police Command has commenced investigations into the alleged defilement of a minor girl by five men in Misau Local Government Area of the state.

The case was said to have been reported at the Misau Divisional Police Headquarters on August 12, 2025, around 10:30 p.m. by Yusuf Muhammad and Danjuma Muhammad of Area 2, Misau.

The suspects above 40 years who reportedly admitted to the crime were said to have had defiled the girl at different times and separate locations.

Police Spokesman, CSP Ahmed Wakil, in a statement on Tuesday, said the suspects are now in custody, adding that the Commissioner of Police, CP Sani-Omolori Aliyu, has ordered the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the State Criminal Investigation Department, Bauchi, to thoroughly investigate the case and charge the matter to court.

The command vowed to leave no stone unturned in this circumstance.

According to Wakil, on August 12, one Yusuf Muhammad and Dun’juma Muhammad reported at Misau Divisional headquarters that the suspects: Sulaiman Adamu (42), Umar Adamu (45) Musa Ibrahim (40), Shu’aibu Abubakar (47), and Mohammed Sanusi all of Zadawa village, Misau LGA, individually used monetary incentives to lure their daughter into various places where they “raped her deceitfully.”

Wakil said upon receipt of the report, detectives were immediately dispatched to the scene. “They evacuated the victim to Federal Medical Centre, Misau, for medical examination, while the alleged suspects were arrested for investigation.

He said during interrogation, both suspects freely confessed to the alleged crime committed.

Wakil said that following medical examination conducted at the Federal Medical Centre, Misau, the victim was found to have been penetrated with some seminal fluid within her private part.