Police in Rivers State have nabbed and detained a man simply called Honest who is in his late twenties at the Egi Divisional Police headquarters in Obite, Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni Local Government Area (ONELGA) of Rivers State.
He is alleged to have conspired with his brother, Okwukwe to abduct and gang rape a fourteen-year-old girl (names withheld) from dusk to dawn in Erima community of the Local Government Area.
A community source informed PMNEWS that the siblings abducted the teenage girl in the evening of Sunday 25 August 2024 while she was walking on a lonely path on her way to her brother’s house in the community.
The Second-in-Command of the local Vigilante, known as ONELGA Security Planning and Advisory Committee (OSPAC), Egi Command, ONELGA, Onuigba Chinonye Aboy from Erima community in an interview with Journalists said “I was on patrol with some of my boys when we met one woman crying that since on Sunday evening, her 14-year-old girl had been missing.
“I now asked the woman which area, she now directed us. We began an investigation. Through some good neighbours too, we tried to find out where the little girl was.
“When we went into the place, we saw two brothers, senior and junior raping the little girl of 14 year old. In the process of trying to arrest them, the senior one tried to fight us. In process of arresting him, his younger one managed to escape. We now apprehended the senior one and handed him over to Egi Police Division in Obite on Monday evening.”
When contacted, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, the Public Relations Officer of Rivers State Police Command confirmed the incident.
She disclosed that one of the suspects was arrested while the Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, CP Olatunji Disu has directed that the suspect as well as the case file be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Port Harcourt and mandated the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) to ensure the arrest of the fleeing suspect while adding that all perpetrators of crime must face consequence of their action.
The suspect has been transferred to SCIID, Port Harcourt.
Source: PM News
