From Tony John, Port Harcourt
A suspected rapist Honest, in his late 20s has been arrested and detained by Egi Divisional Police headquarters in Obite, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area(ONELGA) of Rivers State, for conspiring with his sibling, Okwukwe, to allegedly abduct and gang rape a 14 years old girl (name windshield),from dusk to dawn in Erima community of the LGA.
A community source told our Correspondent that the siblings abducted the girl penultimate Sunday evening while she was walking on a lonely path on her way to her brother’s house in the community.
The second-in-command of 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 (last Sunday) that her 14 years old girl was missing till that Monday afternoon (last Monday).
“I now asked the woman which area, she now directed us.We now began 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, elder and younger raping the little girl of 14 . In the process of trying to arrest them, the senior one tried to prove stubborn to fight us.
“As we were dragging with him, by then, the junior one had run away. We now apprehended the senior one and handed him over to Egi, Police Division in Obite on Monday evening.
“My advice to other criminals that want to behave this way, is that we will also send them to the same place we sent this person if they don’t want to change.
“If they change, the community will contain us and them,but, if they don’t want to change, this community and Egi entirely will not contain the OSPAC and the criminals.
Rivers State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) SP Grace Iringe-Koko, said that one of the suspects has been arrested,while the state Commissioner of police, 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.
CP Disu mandated the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) to ensure the arrest of the fleeing suspect, adding that the perpetrators of the crime must face the consequences of their action.
It was gathered that the suspect has been transferred to SCIID.