{"id":77768,"date":"2025-10-30T09:21:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77768"},"modified":"2025-10-30T09:21:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:21:58","slug":"two-okada-riders-arrested-for-allegedly-raping-15-year-old-hawker-in-kuje","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/30\/two-okada-riders-arrested-for-allegedly-raping-15-year-old-hawker-in-kuje\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Okada Riders Arrested for Allegedly Raping 15-Year-Old Hawker in Kuje"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vigilantes in the Kusaki community, Kuje Area Council of the FCT, have arrested two men, Rabiu Bala and Nasiru Shehu, for allegedly gang-raping a 15-year-old girl who hawks a local rice delicacy known as Garau-Garau.<\/p>\n<p>A vigilante member, Samaila Yakubu, said the suspects were arrested on Wednesday after the victim&#8217;s parents reported the case.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the girl returned home crying, which made her mother suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>Yakubu said the girl was allegedly raped when she went to demand payment from the men who earlier bought from her on credit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On getting to where the suspects, who are commercial motorcyclists, reside, one of them picked up his bike and zoomed off but was flagged down,&#8221; he added<\/p>\n<p>He confirmed that both men confessed to the crime during interrogation. They were immediately arrested and handed over to the police in Kuje.<\/p>\n<p>He added that vigilantes later joined the police at a hospital where doctors confirmed that the girl had been penetrated.<\/p>\n<p>A police source at the Kuje division, who preferred anonymity, confirmed the incident but said the matter is still under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola &nbsp; Vigilantes in the Kusaki community, Kuje Area Council of the FCT, have arrested two men, Rabiu Bala and Nasiru Shehu, for allegedly gang-raping a 15-year-old girl who hawks a local rice delicacy known as Garau-Garau. A vigilante member, Samaila Yakubu, said the suspects were arrested on Wednesday after the victim&#8217;s parents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77770,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77768\/revisions\/77770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}