The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has arrested a suspect, Usman Mohammed, for the alleged rape, cyberbullying, sexual assault, and intimidation of multiple women within the nation’s capital.
Police Public Relations Officer of the FCT Police Command, SP Josephine Adeh, who disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, said the suspect was apprehended by police operatives from the Lugbe Division following a coordinated effort led by the Divisional Police Officer.
According to the police spokesperson, the arrest followed a report received at the Lugbe Police Station on Friday, November 6, 2026, at about 7:05 p.m., alleging that Mohammed, a resident of the Federal Housing Authority estate in Lugbe, had been “intimidating, sexually assaulting and physically assaulting several women over debts owed to him.”
Adeh explained that upon sighting the police operatives at the FHA estate, the suspect sped off in an attempt to evade arrest, prompting a chase by the officers who eventually overtook and intercepted him before he could gain access to the expressway.
Preliminary investigations by the command identified the suspect as a predatory money lender who specifically targets vulnerable women, including widows.
Detailing the suspect’s latest criminal activity, Adeh said, “he lured his victim into his vehicle and drove her to a lonely area in Lugbe, where he sexually assaulted and raped her.
“He further forced her to strip naked and recorded videos of her private parts, which he used to threaten to expose her publicly and kill her if she failed to comply with his repayment demands.”
She noted that the suspect is currently in police custody undergoing further interrogation and will be charged to court upon the conclusion of investigations.
Meanwhile, the FCT Commissioner of Police, CP Ahmed Muhammed Sanusi, has strongly condemned all forms of violence, sexual exploitation, intimidation, and cyberbullying in the territory.
According to the statement, the CP “urges residents, particularly vulnerable persons, not to suffer in silence but to promptly report cases of abuse, threats, blackmail and other criminal activities to the nearest police station or through the Command’s emergency lines: 08032003913, 08061581938.”
