Nigeria: Probe Police Corporal for Alleged Rape of Teenager, NGO Urges IGP

31 October 2017

A Kano-based non-governmental organisation, Ra'ayi Initiative for Human Development, has called on the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Idris Ibrahim, to order immediate investigation into the case of alleged sexual assault leveled against a police corporal in Anambra State.

The group, in a statement signed by its secretary, Hamisu Gumel, said Corporal Barau Garba, who was posted to Anambra on special duty and attached with Okpoko divisional headquarters, Onitsha, was alleged to have raped a 14-year-old girl.

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