LAGOS — The recent case of gang-rape of a
19-year-old girl by her former boyfriend and four others in Ijanikin area of
Lagos has caused Police High
Command to launch a man-hunt for hoodlums in
the area with a view to fishing out the culprits.
Police sources hinted that the Area Commander, ACP
Osung Ekpo and the Ijanikin Divisional Police Officer, Ikegwuonu Obinna
Chidozie have embarked on series of operations aimed at rounding up the hoodlums
that terrorise the area.
The victim was gang-raped when she visited the
boyfriend’s wife that just delivered a baby.
Worse still, she
further alleged that she was forced to invite her younger sister to the scene
where she was also molested and manhandled by the gang. To compound her plight,
she alleged that the gang recorded the act in a video with their phones.
The victim further stated that after she and
her sister were rescued by a soldier living in the compound, the case was
subsequently reported to the Police, which rounded up the suspects.
She, however, regretted that she had to
withdraw the case for fear of being attacked again by the cultists.
In her reaction, Lagos State Police Public
Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide, told Vanguard that the police will never compromise
over such issue and will go to any length to bring the culprits to book. “I
assure you that by the time investigations are concluded, you will see the
result,” she stated.
Source: Vanguard
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