Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Osun Command, have arrested four suspects who allegedly raped two minors in the state.
The suspects Sadiq Opeyemi, 30, Afeez Olalekan 26, Ismail Ibrahim 30 and Abdulahi Garba 33, were arrested on December 3, 2024, in Iwo, Iwo Local Government Area of the state.
The NSCDC Commandant in Osun, Mr Igbalawole Sotiyo, while parading the suspects on Thursday in Osogbo, said that the suspects defiled the two minors who were 13 years of age respectively.
Sotiyo said that the suspects lured the girls with N500 and slept with them on many occasions.
The corps commandant said that the perpetrators confessed to the crime.
Sotiyo, who noted that the girls were living with their grandparents, said that they fell to the tactics of the suspects while looking for survival.
These minors are living with their grandparents but have not been well taken care of.
“It was in the course of looking for survival that they were abused by the four suspects.
“Discreet investigation revealed that the suspects committed the crime.
“I want to assure members of the public that the perpetrators of this offence will be made to face the full wrath of the law to serve as a deterrent to other criminally minded people in the society,” he said.
The suspects while speaking with newsmen admitted that they actually slept with the girls at different times and places after giving money.
Similarly, Sotiyo said that his men also recovered seven pumping machines, a rubber rug, a digger, and other tools from illegal miners in the Igun-Ijesa area of the state.
According to him, on December 3, his men acted on intelligence that some illegal miners were operating in the area.
Sotiyo said when his men arrived at the place at about 1:48 p.m, the illegal miners took to their heels and abandoned their working tools.
“Illegal mining is an economic sabotage and NSCDC will always wage war against saboteurs,” he said.
