Borno Deputy Governor visits 24-year old final year UNIMAID student kidnapped, raped and bathed with acid

Borno State Deputy Governor, Usman Mamman Durkwa on Tuesday, visited the 24-year old final year student of the department of nursing, University of Maiduguri, who was abducted and bathed with chemical substance.

Fatima Habu Usman was kidnapped on Friday March 16, in front of the First Bank Plc, Maiduguri shortly after she emerged from the bank where she had gone to deposit some cash.

She boarded a commercial tricycle popularly called Keke NAPEP to Baga Road, but unknown to her, one of the men in the tricycle brought out a white handkerchief and pretended as though he was having cough, but as soon as he touched her face with it, she passed out, only to find herself dumped at the Railway Bayan Quarters area, bathed with a substance suspected to be acid. That was around 1pm. She was also disposesed of her android phone and other important valuables.

The Deputy Governor sympathized with the victim and assured her that the state government will foot all her medical bills.

Durkwa said her condition is being closely  monitored and government will do all it can to ensure that she fully recovers. He thereafter presented some undisclosed  cash assistance to the victim.

On the delegation is the Commissioner for Poverty Alleviation and Youth Empowerment, Hajiya Inna Galadima,  the representative of the Police Commissioner as well as Chairman of the National Commercial Tricycle And Motorcycles Owners And Riders Association, Borno State Chapter, Kaigama Mohammed.

Earlier, the Deputy Governor met with the leadership of the commercial tricycle riders association in his office, with a view to finding ways in ending such ugly incidence in future.

The association was given a final warning by government to sanitize its house and entire membership so as to weed out the bad eggs among them or else government will be forced to take some drastic measures against them.

To this end, Kaigama Mohammed had assured the Deputy Governor that as soon as he leaves his office, he will summon all members of the various tricycle riders associations in the state to a crucial meeting, to communicate government position on the matter.

It was learnt that many of such cases has been reported to the police in recent times, but the female victims and their families hardly open up because sexual assault is involved in most cases.