Police Arrest Gang Who ‘Kidnapped & Inserted Fingers’ In Lady’s Body

It may be the beginning of justice for the eight man gang in Rivers State which kidnapped a lady and her brothers and sexually abused her.

This is because the police has acted swiftly and arrested the men said to be members of a vigilante.

The incident happened in the popular Diobu area of Port Harcourt, the gang in question being ‘Diobu OSPAC’.

The swift arrest of the group is one up for the police, which had earlier promised that it would act swiftly on the matter.

The victim who could not be named for obvious reasons had told the police that the group led by one Godstime Ihunwo, abducted her and two brothers from their Mile 3 Diobu area on 11 April.

The slight irony to the case however was the linking of the case by the accused persons of the girl’s father, whom they said detailed them.

The account was that the man complained to the vigilante of the children’s insubordination and stealing at home, requesting for the group’s help in disciplining them.

The truth of the matter is one of the things the police would have to unravel now that the group had been apprehended, but in her account of the ordeal in their detention the girl said:

“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.”

With the apprehension of the team, the police had fulfilled its promise through the Police Public Relations Officers, Rivers Police Command Nnamdi Omoni, that it would get to the roots of the matter and that if found culpable, that the perpetrators would be dealt with.

He said as much as the police had a mutual working relations with vigilantes in checking crimes in the state, but that that did not absolve them when culpable.

The Eagle will keep you posted on further developments on the matter.