'Heartless' siblings abduct, gang-rape teenage girl in Rivers community

A suspected rapist identified as 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 allegedly conspiring with his sibling, Mr. Okwukwe, to abduct and gang rape a 14-year old girl (name withheld) from dusk to dawn in Erima community of the LGA.

Sources in the community said the siblings abducted the teenage girl last 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 year old girl is missing till that Monday afternoon (last Monday).

“I now asked the woman which area, she now directed us.We now begin investigation.Through some good neighbours too, we try to find out where the little girl is.

“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 try to prove stubborn to fight us.

“As we were dragging him, by then, the junior one had run away. We now apprehended the senior one and handed it over to Egi, Police Division in Obite on Monday in the evening time.

“My advice to other criminals that want to behave this way, is that we will also send them to the same place we send 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.”

State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) Grace Iringe-Koko, a Superintendent of Police (SP), has confirmed the incident to journalists in Port Harcourt.

She disclosed that one of the the suspects has been 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, mandating the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) to ensure the arrest of the fleeing suspect.

The suspect has since been transferred to SCID as directed by the CP.