A police inspector attached to Mkpat
Enin Police Division in Akwa Ibom State
has allegedly raped a 15-year-old girl at
gunpoint.
The victim, a senior secondary pupil of
Community Secondary School in the
area, on Tuesday said she was
returning from church on Thursday,
last week, when a police team accosted
her.
She explained that the inspector
pointed his gun at her, saying if she
tried to stop him from touching her he
would shoot her.
She said the inspector then led her
away from other members of the team
to a dark portion of the road.
The policeman then forcefully
caressed her breasts, saying “small you
possess these types of breasts”, she
said.
She added, “After he had forced me to
remove my clothes, he ordered me to
lie down and open my legs. And what I
noticed was that he brought out his
penis and inserted it into my vagina.
“As he was romping over me, he
forbade me crying as he threatened to
shoot me if I should open my mouth.
“But when I could not bear the pains
any longer as blood was running out of
my private part, he quickly took me into
the vehicle and drove to the station,
where he detained me from Thursday
till Saturday.
“It was my uncle, Dr. Ime Stephen that
came from Abuja and bailed me out
with N10,000,” she said.
Asked of her mother, she told our
correspondent that she did not know
her mom, who left her dad when she
was a toddler.
Her dad on the other
hand became paralysed after he fell
from a palm tree, and ended up living
with her in her uncle’s house.
Her uncle, Stephen, who said the
inspector in question was a
prosecutor, explained that he could not
believe his eyes when the girl pointed
at the policeman as the one who raped
her from among those who were on
duty on that day.
He said, “The inspector for pointing a
gun he was given on trust at a girl of
15 before raping her, lacks the
characters of police officers who are
meant to protect lives and property of
Nigerians.
“He is a fraud by also taking the girl
into the police custody for three days
and collected N10,000 as bail sum from
the girl’s guardian.
“We call for his dismissal from the force
so that he can be prosecuted
accordingly.”
