Nigeria, May 6 -- The police n Jigawa State on Wednesday said they recorded 35 rape cases in the state between January and April this year.

The state's police commissioner, Usman Gomna, at a media parley in Dutse, said there were more cases of rape and other unnatural offences than of kidnapping and other violent crimes in the state.

Mr Gomna said while rape topped the crime chart within the four months with 35 cases, kidnapping dropped to the bottom with 10 reported cases in the state within the period.

The police chief some of the rape suspects had been charged to courts while others are still in police custody due to the ongoing industrial action by judiciary workers.

He said statistical analysis of the rape cases indicated that pa...