Zamfara State Anti-Thuggery Committee has arrested a 70-year-old man for allegedly raping a girl-child aged 13 years.
Parading the man alongside other suspects on Friday, the chairman of the committee, Bello Bakyasuwa, said the suspected rapist, who has four wives and 20 children, confessed to twice having carnal knowledge of the teenage girl.
Mr Bakyasuwa said the man was arrested by operatives of the committee as he attempted to rape the child for the third time, along Yan mangwarori area in Gusau town.
