A 27 years old man trader, Shehu Bashir of Yabati ward of Sabo Gari Local Government area of Kaduna State has been arrested by Kaduna State police Command for rapping to death a 2 years baby to death.
The suspect was arrested by men from the Sabo Gari Area Command following a complaint from the father of the late minor, Mallam Zakkari Dahiru and has been transferred to the state Homicide Department.
Speaking to the media at the police premises the suspect, Shehu Bassiru said he regretted his action and begged for mercy.
He said,”My manhood erected and “to be honest with you I don’t know what come over me but I started’ flipping with my manhood which was already erected and as if the devil want to punish me, the late Fatimah came into my room because we are neighbours and she is used to me.
“Immediately she came I striped her naked and penetrated her through her virginal and to my surprise she stopped breathing and I applied water on her head but that would not resuscitate her, from then I know that I am in a big trouble.
“I became more afraid when her mother started asking about her I told her I have not seen her that day. I put together some of my cloths under the pretence of washing them, but her corpse was hidden in one of them.
“It was in this process that her father came into my room saying that he was informed that some people saw his daughter going into my room I asked him to come in and see if she is there “He came in and went to my inner room but did not find anything; he came back to the palour where I was sitting with my clothes.
On his way out he stooped and said he want to see what is inside the wares I put on the ground and when he scattered the cloths he saw the corpse of his daughter and he raised alarm which attracted other neighbours and the police was invited” He said.
According to the father of late Fatima, Mallam Zakkari Dahiru who could not hold back his tears said on the faithful day i was on my way out when my daughter asked me for money to buy bean cake but i refused to give her but the suspect came out of his room and asked for N50 to buy sugar which I obliged and it was the same money I later learnt he used to lured my daughter into his room.”
The Police Public Relation Officer Kaduna Command ,DSP Abdullahi Zubairu said the case file has been transferred to homicide for investigation and the suspect is currently detained at the criminal Investigation department.