Mohammed Alidu sentence to life imprisonment for raping a 9years old daughter of a fellow police officer 

 On Monday May 23, Mohammed Alidu, a dismissed police officer was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offense's Court for raping a 9years old daughter of a policewoman.

Following the prosecution team, Mr Olusola Soneye, Mrs Olufunke Adegoke and Ms Abimbola Abolade, the dismissed police officer Alidu committed the offence on June 29, 2018 on Makinde Police Barracks Road, Mafoluku, Oshodi.

The team further said Alidu take hold of the survivor into a wooden house on her way to school and raped her

They presented that the defendant was apprehended after the survivor reported the case at the police station.

The prosecutors said the defendant Alidu confessed to defiling the survivor, blaming it on the devil but after sometime he denied what he said

The prosecutors reminded the court of the Sections 137 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.

The Judge, Justice Abiola Soladoye called the act of Alidu a disgrace to the police for not upholding the dignity of the police and stoop so low to defile an underage girl

"The evidence of the survivor is the most credible evidence in identifying the perpetrator. The vivid and oral testimony of the survivor satisfies the court that prosecution has proved every inch of the ingredients,"

He is a disgrace to the entire Police because he failed to uphold law and order as he went on a frolic of his own by engaging in a bizarre and irresponsible behaviour turning the barracks into a sex den.

"It is most chilling. The defendant is hereby sentenced to life imprisonment without the option of fine. 

"He should have his name entered in the Sex Offenders Register of the Lagos State Government,” the judge said 

According to The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports, four witnesses testified against Alidu in the trial including mother of the victim. 

According to the victim's mother, Alidu accosted her daughter on her way home from school, dragged her into his apartment and defiled her.

"We live at Makinde Barracks, Mafoluku, Oshodi, Lagos. On June 29, 2018, I was at work when my husband, who was out of Lagos, called to inform me that Sgt. Mohammed had defiled our daughter," the girls mother

"I went to the police station which is within the same compound of the barracks and my daughter was there. My daughter told me that when she was coming back from school, Mohammed called her but she ignored him

"She said he forcefully took her to his apartment, put her on a bed, tore her underwear and defiled her.”

According to the mother, her daughter was taken to the Mirabel Centre (a sexual assault referral centre) for medical examination, and doctors confirmed that she had been raped