- Two siblings simply identified as Honest, 20 years old and Okwukwe, have been reportedly caught gang raping a 14-year-old girl.
While one of the suspects has been arrested and detained by Egi Divisional Police Headquarters in Obite in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of the state, has been at large.
It was gathered that the incident happened at Erema community in the LGA and that the siblings had reportedly abducted the teenage girl on penultimate Sunday evening, while she was walking on a lonely path heading to her uncle’s house on an errand by her mother, before she was forcefully took to an isolated compound near a bush.
Speaking, the Second in Command of ONELGA Security Planning and Advisory Committee, OSPAC, Egi Command, Onuigba Chinonye, they had during their patrol met a woman crying over her missing daughter.
Chinonye said the team had launched a quick investigation in the community and found the two siblings raping the teenager.
He 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-year-old girl has not been seen till that Monday afternoon.
“I asked the woman which area? She directed us. We quickly began investigations. Through some good neighbours, 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.
On the process of trying to arrest them, the senior one started proving stubborn.
In the process, the junior one run away, but we apprehended the senior one and handed him over to Egi Police Division in Obite on the same Monday.
“My advice to other criminals that will 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.
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“If they change, the community will contain we and them. But if they don’t want to change this community and Egi entirely will not contain OSPAC and the criminals.”
When contacted, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, the Public Relations Officer of Rivers State Police Command confirmed the incident.
Iringe-Koko disclosed that one of the suspects has been arrested while the Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, Olatunji Disu, has directed that the suspect as well as the case file be transferred to State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) Port Harcourt.
She further revealed that the CP also mandated the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Egi to ensure the arrest of the fleeing suspect, adding that all perpetrators of crime must face the consequence of their action.
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Iringe-Koko stated, “He (suspect) is in our custody and will be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department.
“The Commissioner of Police has ordered the Divisional Police Officer to ensure the arrest of the fleeing suspect for him to face the law.”
