The Enugu State Police Command has arrested a 22-year-old
security guard, identified as Gideon Musa, for raping a nine-year-old girl to
death in the state capital.
According to reports, the suspect, who is a guard near the
victim’s house, took the teenager to a nearby bush and raped her to death.
However, father of the deceased, Mr. Edwin Ode Ominiyi of
Umuchigbo, a community in Abakpa Enugu East council area, was said to have
reported the disappearance of her daughter to the police.
Confirming the incident on Wednesday, the state Police
Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Ebere
Amaraizu, said the victim, according to her father, suddenly disappeared at
about 1 pm, which resulted to a search and subsequent report at the police station.
Following the report, Amaraizu said the policemen swung into
action, spreading their tentacles within the arena and environs.
According to
Amaraizu, “a search was, however, intensified by the father assisted by the
suspect. During the search, the suspect pretended to be assisting until the
policemen were informed that he was the last to be seen with the victim.
“Following this revelation, Musa, popularly known as Aboki
Mai-guard, was invited and questioned by the police. He then confessed that he
took the victim to a nearby bush where he had carnal knowledge of her until she
became unconscious and fainted.
“He further revealed that when the victim fainted, he had to
run out from the bush. When he took the operatives to the place, the lifeless
body of little Endurance was seen lying naked with blood gushing out from her private
part.”
Meanwhile, Police has confirmed that the state’s Criminal
and Investigation Department has commenced investigations just as the body of
the deceased has been deposited at the Parklane Hospital Enugu mortuary for
autopsy.
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