A Nigerian lawyer has narrated how she rescued an 11-year-old school girl from a paedophile tricycle rider while he was sexually abusing the pupil.

The lady, identified as Ali Fadeela, shared the story via her Instagram page and said while she was in a tricycle on Monday morning, the rider was rubbing his hands on the lap of the pupil who was also a passenger.

She added that when the girl moved because she was uncomfortable but couldn’t speak out, the man quickly put his hand back in his pocket.

The lawyer said she quickly raised an alarm and dragged the paedophile out of the tricycle, but efforts to drag him to the police station was futile as passers-by pleaded on his behalf.

She wrote:

“For the first time in a long time, I remembered why I studied law. My heart is so pained right now. I have always heard about adults sexually assaulting children but today I witness one that the thought of it still lingers and would for a long time. The cruelty of human beings is crazy.

“I entered keke today and saw this man whose picture you see, touching an 11-year-old girl on school uniform. At first, I noticed him adjusting himself every now and then and she had this look of disgust on her face so I observed more and saw this paedophile mistake of a man rubbing his hands on her lap and when she moves he quickly puts his hand back in his pocket.

“So I asked her if he was disturbing her and she confirmed it, now I didnt have to bcos I saw it with my eyes but I wanted to be sure she knew what was being done to her.

“I dragged him out, tried to drag his sorry ass to the police and he started begging but I am more pained that i couldnt do more. People gathered and were begging to let him go and for some reason I did but I feel I owed it to the girl and others like her to do more… we are all responsible for the children in this world whether or not we are related by blood or religion or tribe.

“Every girl child or even adult should know that they have the absolute right over their body. I saw a scared girl who couldnt raise her voice and I know there are so many out there in her shoes. We should teach our children, sisters, friends, neighbours, wards to always raise an alarm when put in that position. We should be observant of what goes on around us especially where u have children involved.

“Though I couldnt do more but we should all endeavour to do more.. keeping quiet is never the answer to abuse… paedophiles are sick heartless creatures and should be treated as such.. p.s. I am sharing the picture of this man because I want anybody that sees him to give him a hot slap on behalf of that child and every other child he must have tried to assault. Lets be our brothers keepers… VERY HOT SLAP PLEASE. THANKS.”