How bus conductor in Kaduna allegedly raped 5-year-old for 2 years

A 24-year old man, Haruna Tukur, who works as a bus conductor in Kaduna, has been accused of serially raping a five-year old girl (name withheld).
Mr. Tukur was arrested and charged to a magistrate court in Kaduna on February 29, this year, for allegedly raping the minor.
But that didn’t deter him. He was said to have began raping her again immediately he was set free on bail, thereby prompting an outrage on the social media.
The travail of the little girl trended on the social media after one concerned Nigerian, Munirat Abdusalam, tweeted it, and afterwards granted an interview on the matter to the VOA radio programme on Hausa language, ‘Yau Da Gobe’.
Mr. Tukur is said to be feared within the Malali village, a suburb of Kaduna, because of his alleged membership of a notorious criminal gang in the area.
The victim’s mother (name withheld) said Mr. Tukur had been raping her daughter since she was three years old.
“She revealed to me that he (Tukur) usually lured her into a graveyard near her Islamic School, or an uncompleted building, or to an isolated refuse dump near LEA Primary School Ungwan Gado, to have sex with her and (then) give her a bottle of Maltina drink,” the victim’s mother told PREMIUM TIMES at their one room apartment in Malali.
“Some people advised us against reporting to the police since we did not catch him in the act,” she said. “So, we got scared and kept mute.