A
15-year-old girl has been raped by three men in the Adamawa State capital,
Yola.
The incident
occurred Thursday evening when the three men who were moving around town in a
car, allegedly seized the girl from along the street, took her somewhere, raped
her, and then dropped her back on the street.
A human
rights activist, Hajia Hauwa Garba, who is following the case, said that the
teenager in question is a maternal cousin of a five-year-old girl who was
defiled earlier in the year and who is still in hospital.
The minor in
question was defiled in the Jambutu area of Jimeta in August this year as a
result of the injury her assailant, Adamu Abdullahi, inflicted on her which was
so much that the minor has had to be operated on four times, and she has spent
every day since the late August incident in hospital bed.
The Public
Relations Officer of the FMC Yola, Adamu Dodo, who attested to the latest rape
incident, said in a blog post Friday evening that the 15-year-old girl was
found bleeding and unconscious, “abandoned by the roadside leading to Jimeta
Central Eid Mosque, Yola North Local Government Area of Adamawa State on
Thursday evening.”
He said the
Jimeta Police Division, situated not far from where the teenager was found,
took her to the Sexual Assault Centre at the Adamawa Specialist Hospital, from
where she was referred to the FMC.
He said the
15-year old survivor has regained consciousness, having been stabilised by
doctors, and has disclosed that while she was going back home, following
through the shortcut road she was used to, between Central Primary School and
the former Nitel (some metres from where they later returned her unconscious),
three thugs in a vehicle suddenly stopped close to her, asking her to join
them, forcefully insisting that they would take her home.
She added
that the next thing was finding herself “on this hospital bed with pains below
my abdomen.”
