{"id":58945,"date":"2019-05-02T17:36:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T17:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metronewsng.online\/?p=50756"},"modified":"2019-05-02T17:36:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T17:36:06","slug":"naptip-arrests-two-govt-staff-for-allegedly-raping-13-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/naptip-arrests-two-govt-staff-for-allegedly-raping-13-year-old\/","title":{"rendered":"NAPTIP arrests two govt staff for allegedly raping 13-year-old"},"content":{"rendered":"

Officials of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) have arrested two officials of the Federal Ministry of Youths and Sports for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl.<\/p>\n

The arrest of Salisu Sabiu, 55, and Ibrahim Mansur, 51, was indicated in a statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES by NAPTIP on Thursday.<\/p>\n

According to the statement, the suspects, who live in the same neighbourhood with the victim in Dutse, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory, were arrested following a tip-off.<\/p>\n

The statement said following their \u2018confession\u2019 and \u2018admittance of guilt\u2019, the suspects will be charged to court and prosecuted under the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act, 2015.<\/p>\n

The statement adds that the director-general of NAPTIP, Julie Okah-Donli, condemned the act and added said the agency will ensure justice is served.<\/p>\n

The statement said Ms Okah-Donli also informed the public of the whistle-blowing policy of the agency and assured whistle-blowers of anonymity and protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Officials of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) have arrested two officials of the Federal Ministry of Youths and Sports for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl. The arrest of Salisu Sabiu, 55, and Ibrahim Mansur, 51, was indicated in a statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES by NAPTIP on Thursday. According […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3279,841,489,3280],"class_list":["post-58945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-ibrahim-mansur","tag-naptip","tag-rape","tag-salisu-sabiu","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}