Police arrest teacher for sodomizing 12 Almajiri children in Jigawa


Police in Jigawa State have arrested 23-year-old Islamic school teacher, Yusuf Yunusa for allegedly sodomizing twelve of his students in Gwaram Local Government.

State Commissioner of Police A T. Abdullahi disclosed this while parading the suspects at the Command’s headquarters, Dutse, the state capital.

According to him “on 11/07/2024 at about 2100hrs, information was received at Gwaram Divisional Police Headquarters that, on the same date at about 1400hrs, one Yusuf Yunusa, 23 years of Gwaram town, a teacher of an Almajiri Islamic school, formed the habit of taking some of his pupils out to different locations and forcing them to massage his penis and suck it, in the process compels them to swallow his semen”

“On receipt of this very unfortunate and ugly report, detectives attached to Gwaram Division swiftly swung into action and arrested the suspect. He was brought to the Division for preliminary investigation”

He said a medical report confirmed the commission of the crime on 10 out of the 12 victims.

CP. Abdullahi said the suspect was transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Dutse for a discreet investigation.

The suspect confessed to the commission of the crime and will soon be taken to court.