Seventy-one-year-old grandfather, Ashiru Sule, who was arrested for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl and using her to steal in Gombe State, shares his story with CHIMA AZUBUIKEA girl reported that I raped her and that I asked her to be stealing maize for me.Why was she supplying maize to you? Is she a farmer?
Well, I usually patronised her. I was told that I had been buying stolen maize but I didn’t know that. I was asked to state the link between the girl and me and I simply told them that we only did business – she brought me maize and I bought. She lied that her mother gave her maize to supply to me. I don’t go to villages to buy maize. I used to travel to villages to buy maize but I stopped doing that and started buying from people around.
I have had no other dealing with her. I was accused of raping her multiple times. That never happened.I don’t know anything about the charm; I can swear on the Quran.I swear on the Quran, nothing like that happened between us. I want them to bring the Quran. If I really raped her, I should die within a minute. She was not the only one bringing maize to me; I swear to God, I didn’t have sex with her.I can swear that I did not rape her. I swear on the Quran, I didn’t give her any charm.
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