Police
Arrest Man, Over Abduction, Defilement
of 13-Year-Old Girl.
Detectives from Ozuoba
Police Division has arrested one Prince, a man in his mid-twenties over
abduction and defilement of thirteen year old girl in Ogbogoro in Obio/Akpor
Local Government Area of Rivers state.
Recall that ‘Ify, the
mother of the teenage girl who did not want her identity made public due to
stigmatization had disclosed that her daughter was abducted on 18th March,2024
while on an errand by Prince and taken to his place where her daughter
was allegedly repeatedly defiled for two days before she escaped.
The incident was
reported to Ozuoba Police Division that launched manhunt for the suspect.
Detectives attached to the station acting on credible and actionable
intelligence arrested the suspect in his house on Friday morning.
In the meantime,
Prince Wiro National Coordinator of Centre for Basic Rights Protection And
Accountability Campaign has commended the Police for the arrest of the suspect.
When contacted, the Public
Relations Officer of Rivers State Police Command Superintendent of Police(SP)
Grace Iringe Koko confirmed the incident.
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