Vigilante Team Video, Stripped Me, Inserted Fingers In My Body ―Victim

It is almost becoming a season of sordid tales from Rivers State in the midst of COVID-19 lockdown, the latest coming for a 21 year old lady.

The distraught lady has told a tale of how an eight-man vigilante team known as ‘Diobu OSPAC’ grabbed her, took her to a confined place where they stripped her naked and dipped their hands in all kinds of places.

The girl, whose name cannot be mentioned for safety purposes, told the police that ‘Diobu OSPAC’ did not just molest her, but also recorded the scene, and threatened her against telling what happened.

She said the team was led by one Godstime Ihunwo, and that they abducted her and her two brothers from their Mile 3 Diobu on 11 April, purportedly on the orders of their father who had complained to the vigilante of the children’s insubordination and stealing at home.

“Upon arrival at a detention room of the vigilante, I was stripped naked and placed in separate room from my brothers.

They subjected me and my brothers to severe torture. They inserted fingers into my body.

“They were abusing me, saying they were directed to check my private part to ascertain if I were still a virgin. And they took videos of my nakedness and the molestation.

“After beating me and my brothers thoroughly, they shaved our hairs before releasing us next day.

“I was admitted in the hospital for four days after the ordeal with threats from my abusers that they would track and deal with us if we reported the matter to the police.”

Police Public Relations Officers, Rivers Police Command Nnamdi Omoni, said though the police has mutual working relations with vigilantes in checking crimes in the state, there was no excuse for the said team overstepping their bounds or engaging in criminal acts. Omoni said,

“The police will investigate all human rights abuses allegedly committed by this group. In the first place, they have no power to operate a detention center. At best they apprehend and hand over to the police. They have no right to detain anyone.”