The Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), Nasarawa state command, has arrested a 25-year-old man identified as Yusuf Bello for sodomizing an 11-year-old boy in Lafia, the capital of the state.
Bello blamed his action on his ingested herbal mixture, which he claimed gave him an erection that he could not control.
He said confessing to the offence;
“Some few days after the Sallah celebration, I had a running stomach and approached a herbalist who sold herbal medicine to me for N150.
“He told me that the medicine had no side effects, but some hours after I took it, I had an erection and couldn’t control it.
“I went to the toilet where I saw a boy who I called and I had anal sex with him.”
The commanding officer of the state NSCDC, Dr Muhammad Mahmoud Fari, who said the suspect was detained immediately after the act was committed, further disclosed that he would be arraigned in court after the investigation was concluded.