The 24-year-old suspect’s arrest as a suspected child rapist was reported on Friday by the Lagos Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps.
A week after a victim reported her experience to the Command, the suspect, Ridwan Akinbode, who is from Oyo State and dwells in the Bariga neighbourhood of Lagos State, was reportedly detained.
According to information obtained, the suspect enjoyed luring his victims to an unfinished building where he would commit the crime.
But on Friday, his luck ran out when agents from the command’s Anti-Human Trafficking and Gender Unit captured him in his hiding place in Bariga.
The corp’s commander, Eweka Okoro, in a statement released by the Public Relations Officer, Oluwaseun Abolurin, said the matter was reported to the gender unit last week after his victim was raped a second time.
The statement read in part, “The suspected paedophile was arrested following due diligence, credible and actionable intelligence taken on him by the command’s personnel, since the matter was reported to the above named unit last week.
“Preliminary investigations showed that the suspect first had carnal knowledge of his victim, aged 15, in an uncompleted building where he lured her two years ago. He made another attempt in October 2022 before he was finally arrested by our men.”
The command said it has partnered with the Women At Risk Medical International Foundation and other human rights and non-governmental groups to carry out medical examinations on the victim “in a bid to bring the culprit to book.”
