•Teenager narrates how truck driver defiled, impregnated her
Operatives of the Edo State Police Command have arrested a 28-year-old truck conductor, Abdurazak Ibrahim, for alleged sexual assault on a 15-year- old girl in Edo State.

The incident occurred on September 13, at Uromi in Esan South East Local Council of the state.

Parading the suspect, the command’s spokesperson, Chidi Nwabuzor, said the father of the victim, Tony Ekata, reported to the police that Ibrahim sexually assaulted his daughter.

Nwabuzor said the suspect, who is a truck motor boy, called the victim while she was hawking groundnuts along Ivue-Irrua Road, Uromi, Edo State with pretence to buy some groundnuts from her.

He said: “The suspect attacked and pushed her inside the vehicle and forcefully had sex with her. The police stormed the scene and arrested the suspect.

“The suspect confessed to the crime, while the victim was taken to the hospital for medical examination.

The suspect would soon be charged to court as soon as the investigation is completed.”

In an interview with newsmen, the suspect, who hails from Oyo State, denied the allegation, saying he was falsely accused.

RELATEDLY, a Lagos Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court was yesterday, told how a truck driver, Bashiru Mamuda, allegedly sexually assaulted and impregnated a 17-year-old student of Navy Town Junior Secondary School.

The survivor recounted her experience before Justice Abiola Soladoye during an ongoing trial of Mamuda over the charge filed against him by the state government.

In her testimony, she told the court that the incident took place in her mother’s shop when she was 16 years old.

Led-in-evidence by the chief State Counsel, Mrs Olufunke Adegoke, the prosecution witness after identifying the defendant in the dock.”