Police Dismiss Corporal for Alleged Rape of 4 year old girl in Plateau

The Plateau State Police Command has dismissed a police corporal, Damudu Bzibu, who was accused of raping a four-year-old girl. Bzibu, with force number, 378612, was a riot police man attached to the Special Task Force (STF) on security in Jos, when he, on March 26, at Kassa in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area, the girl and raped her in a makeshift tent. The state Police Commissioner, Mr. Chris Olakpe, who yesterday paraded the suspect alongside other criminals at the state police headquarters in Jos, said the girl's father found out when he came back from work that she was bleeding profusely, and when he asked her what happened, she said she was raped by a policeman. Olakpe said the suspect was later identified as Bzibu of 14 PMF, Makurdi attached to Sector 7 of STF. He said the Inspector General of Police (IG) Mohammed Abubakar had shown a special interest in the rape case, adding that the suspect was given orderly room trial, found guilty, and dismissed. The commissioner also paraded a 12-year-old boy, who out of anger over a domestic quarrel, stabbed his elder brother to  death. ThisDay