“I met with one unknown girl along
Yarbu Lutu road, I stop her on the bush
and I have sexual intercourse with her to
the level that she get seriously injured on
her private part.”
From the evidence of PW3 CPC Ibrahim Sahfi’u of the Divisional
Police Headquarters, Sabon Birni, the confessional statements of the
defendant both the Divisional Headquarters and the State CID Office
Sokoto, the confessional statements of the defendant appeared to be
true. The said witness testified as follows:“…I was instructed by our DPO to take
them to hospital i.e. the victim, her
relations and the relations of the
defendant. The victim was examined by
the Doctor and the result given to us by
the Doctor, shows that the victim was
raped. I took them to our DPO where the
defendant confessed to the commission of
the offence.”
As to who link him with the commission of the offence, the defendant
in his statement at CID Office Sokoto marked as Exhibit ‘A’ and ‘A1’
for Hausa and English translated versions respectively, stated as
follows:“I was at the mosque for Friday prayer
when she came together with two men.
That was when she saw me and pointed at
me that I was the one who raped her. I
was arrested and taken to Durumbu
(Village Head of Kumbula) before handed
over to the police…”
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