Thursday, August 11, 2016

Three Policemen, held for stripping girl

Ebonyi State Police Command yesterday began orderly room trial of three of its men indicted in the stripping and battering of a 15-yearold girl, Uzoamaka Chukwu, at Umunaga Uburu in Ohaozara Local Government Area. 

Uzoamaka was allegedly stripped naked and battered with cables and canes by some persons in the area with the picture and video posted on the social media.
Briefing journalists in Abakaliki on the matter and the breakthrough recorded by the police, the Commissioner of Police, Ibekwe Abdallah, said after the orderly room trial, the three policemen would be prosecuted.
She disclosed that the Coordinator of Ohaozara Development Centre, Ene Ogbonnaya, and two others had also been arrested in connection with the case. The commissioner promised that the incident would be properly investigated and that justice would be done in the matter. Abdallah said her men also arrested members of a notorious syndicate who specialised in child stealing and trafficking.
She said: “On July 16, at Uburu in Ohaozara Local Government Area, members of a notorious syndicate who specialised in child stealing/trafficking came to Uburu with a Toyota Camry car with registration number BEN 173 AU to unleash their nefarious act on the people.
Their names are: Anthonia Okeke, Chukwuka Muonye and Raphael Kanwei. “In the course of investigation, Esther Agbowo of Nkalagu in Ishielu Local Government Area in company with her father reported that she was lured with her two children to Delta State by Ekene who claimed to be a pastor in the guise of marriage after introduction rites to her people. “While she was with him at Asaba, she was abandoned by the man and her two kids were taken away from her and sold off.”https://newtelegraphonline.com/three-policemen-held-stripping-girl/

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