The victim was
unlucky to have boarded a taxi cab with four male passengers from Odion
road to her residence on Aguowe Street, Off Mac-Demot road in the oil
city.
After she had
boarded, the driver of the taxi, to her chagrin, suddenly took a
different turn towards Cemetery Road, and then the men pounced on her.
Attempt by the
victim to put up some resistance didn't succeed, as one of the rapists
drew a dagger, while others brandished other dangerous weapons,
including guns, and threatened to kill her should she raise any alarm.
They thereafter
drove her to an uncompleted building in the locality (Cemetery Road)
where they took turns on her and left her in a state of coma.
Luck, however, ran
out on them after a tip-off and men of Quick Response Squad of the Delta
State Police Command in Warri, swooped on them, arresting one Tejiri
Akpofure, Ogbor Seih and Great Obrakpo all of Nos. 24, 64 and 66,
Cemetery Road, Warri.
The new Police
Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, Famous Ajieh, an
Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) who confirmed the arrests in
Asaba yesterday, said the command has gone out with full force to arrest
the fleeing member of the gang, one Stephen Ebeme.
Ajieh said the
arrested suspects have confessed to the crime, adding that one
BlackBerry phone used by the suspects in recording the rape action was
recovered.
While he assured
that the suspects would soon be charged to court, he informed that three
suspected murderers / kidnappers including one Ola Ikwueke, Ikechukwu
Uwaguna and David Evjouke, were in custody.
The suspects,
according to him, allegedly killed one Emmanuel Chukwunolu who refused
to be kidnapped two days to Christmas Day at Ebeneku, Ndokwa West Local
Government Area of the state.
While the PPRO said
they have been placed under serious interrogation on their involvement
in a bid to nab other members of the kidnap syndicate, the raped girl is
recuperating at an undisclosed clinic in Warri.
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