Police Arrest Moneylender, Ahmed Usman, for Rape, Filming Nursing Mother

The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has arrested a man identified as Ahmed Usman for abducting, sexually assaulting, and filming a nursing mother after she defaulted on repayments of a ₦600,000 loan.

The case was reported to Lugbe Division officers on 5 November. According to FCT Police Public Relations Officer SP Josephine Adeh, Usman specialised in lending money to widows and other vulnerable women and demanded high weekly interest payments. The suspect was paraded by  Josephine Adeh in a video she posted on her Facebook page.

SP Josephine said Usman lent the victim ₦600,000 and required her to pay ₦30,000 weekly as interest in addition to the principal. When she missed a payment due to poor sales, she went to meet him with the ₦24,000 she had. Josephine stated that Usman pushed the woman into his Toyota vehicle, threatened her with a knife, and drove her to a secluded location behind the chief’s palace in Lugbe, where he sexually assaulted her and recorded her naked.

The suspect reportedly threatened to kill her if she did not pay the outstanding amount. The woman later raised and transferred the money before reporting the incident to police. Officers tracked and arrested Usman; he initially drove off with a police officer in his vehicle before being fully apprehended.

During a public parade, Usman admitted lending the woman the money and collecting the weekly payments. He further admitted instructing her to remove her clothes, having sex with her, and recording her while naked, including directing her to expose her genitals for the video. He identified himself as a married man from Nasarawa State with six children and pleaded for a second chance.

SP Josephine said investigations are ongoing and that the command is working with the International Federation of Women Lawyers on the case.