By Hassan Zaggi
Forty Eight- year-old Adekola Adeshina has been arrested by operatives attached to the Apo Divisional in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command for defiling a 10-year-old girl.
A statement by the Command Spokesperson, Josephine Adeh (SP), disclosed that the suspect had since admitted to the crime in a written statement and that he is at the moment in Police custody. He will be charged to court upon the conclusion of the investigation.
The 10-year-old, the statement explained, is currently under going medical examination in an undisclosed hospital in the FCT.
This is even as the Commissioner of Police (CP) in charge of the FCT Command, Sadiq Idris Abubakar, has called on parents and guardians to exercise what he described as a greater level of attention to changes in behavioral pattern of their wards around individuals and ensure that measures are put in place to shield them against sexual crimes.
The CP equally enjoined members of the public to be vigilant and inform the police on any suspicious movement or acts within their vicinity through 08032003913, 08061581938, 07057337653, and 08028940883, while the Public Complaint Bureau (PCB) desk, could be reached on: 0902 222 2352.
The statement reads in part: “At about 10:15hrs on March 22, 2023, the police received a complaint from one Rose Solomon of behind-Prince & Princess Estate that she was suspecting her neighbor, one Adekola Adeshina, a 48 years old male, of sexually engaging her 10-year- old daughter, Faith Solomon.
“The suspect shortly after being arrested and interrogated, voluntarily elected in a written statement to have carried out the dastardly act severally.”
