Police Arrest Man For Alleged Torture Of 11-yr-old Almajiri Pupil In Bauchi

The Bauchi State Police Command has arrested 1 Lawal Nasiru, a 28-year-old of Unguwar Jarmai successful Darazo section authorities country of the State for allegedly torturing and brutalising an 11-year-old Almajiri pupil.

Nasiru was accused of tying the boy, identified arsenic Sani Abdullah from Nahuta, successful Katsina State, with a dense enactment and subjecting him to terrible beating with a instrumentality and heavy cable, leaving him with aggregate injuries connected his hands and legs.

Confirming the incidental successful a connection connected Tuesday, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), CSP Ahmed Mohammed Wakil, said the substance was reported connected September 22, 2025, by 1 Idris Mohammed, a 50-year-old attached to the Social Welfare Office successful Darazo LGA.

The ailment was lodged astatine the Divisional Police Headquarters successful Darazo, successful the institution of the victim.

He explained that a squad of policemen, led by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), SP Auwalu Ilu, instantly visited the transgression country and arrested the suspect.

The connection added that the unfortunate was taken to the General Hospital successful Darazo, for aesculapian attention.

During interrogation, the fishy confessed to the crime, claiming helium tied the unfortunate to forestall him from escaping from the Tsangaya school.

The minor, however, told investigators that helium was mercilessly confined with a heavy enactment for a agelong clip without justification.

The Commissioner of Police, CP Sani-Omolori Aliyu, has directed that the lawsuit beryllium transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Bauchi, for further investigation, with an assurance that the fishy volition beryllium profiled and prosecuted.

The lawsuit followed a disturbing inclination of kid maltreatment precocious reported successful Bauchi State.

On Tuesday morning, constabulary confirmed the apprehension of Rabi Nuhu, a housewife from Magama Gumau successful Toro section authorities country for allegedly brutalising her five-year-old stepdaughter for bedwetting.

The victim, whose parent had died astir a twelvemonth ago, was near successful the attraction of her father, Mohammed Umar, and his caller wife.

LEADERSHIP reports that this incidental came conscionable days aft different lawsuit of kid brutality was reported successful the aforesaid community, wherever a seven-year-old miss was allegedly tortured by her brother’s wife, Suwaira Ibrahim, who reportedly burnt the child’s backstage portion with a blistery weapon aft accusing her of witchcraft.