Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command has arrested a safety guard recognized as Godday, who labored at a constructing previously utilized by a industrial financial institution round Mothercat Junction, TransAmadi, Port Harcourt.
The suspect was apprehended on Tuesday, September twenty third, for allegedly abducting and defiling a 14-year-old lady.
In line with the sufferer’s mom, she despatched her daughter to withdraw cash from an ATM at Mothercat on Saturday, September twentieth, 2025.
The lady withdrew cash from one financial institution after which went to a different financial institution to withdraw more money. Nonetheless, she was allegedly kidnapped by the suspect, who had been standing behind her at one of many banks.
The suspect dragged the lady to his safety submit, locked the gate, and raped her.
The mom mentioned lady’s garments had been soaked with water and blood, and she or he had bruises on her face, neck, and leg.
She narrated: “Whereas we had been on her search, I known as once more she choose with a low voice that she was on her approach house.
“When she got here, her dress was soaked with water and blood,there have been bruises on her face,neck and leg. Her left jaw acquired swollen and her left eye too. She was so weak.
“To begin with, we went to Police station in Amadi and made an official report, we took her to the hospital for remedy. When she turned a bit robust, we requested her what occurred. She defined that when she was withdrawing cash at a financial institution in ordinance,Trans Amadi, a person was standing behind her.So she felt the person additionally got here to withdraw cash. After withdrawing cash,she found that the person didn’t proceed to the financial institution ATM to withdraw cash.
“She now entered one other Keke and went again to a different financial institution at mothercat. When she got here down infront of the financial institution at mothercat,she noticed the person who was standing behind her on the financial institution in ordinance, the person beginning dragging her on the entrance of the financial institution at mothercat,she was shouting no individual got here to her rescue. The person dragged her to a financial institution the place he’s a safety guard on the similar mothercat,dragged her inside, locked the gate and raped her.
“At that course of whereas she was struggling the person held her mouth and began beating her,until she handed out.
“After some hours,the person woke her up and informed her,pack your issues and begin going.
“So we reported the case once more to the primary financial institution the place she went to withdraw cash at Mothercat,they now went in quest of the man and arrested him.
“The cash she went to withdraw,,once I calculated,300 and forty thousand naira isn’t in that cash”.
Nonetheless, the sufferer’s mom has known as for justice, stating that no sum of money can carry again her daughter’s virginity.
The police had been knowledgeable, and the suspect was arrested after the financial institution’s safety personnel collaborated with the Amadi Police Division.
The suspect has been transferred to the State Legal Investigation and Intelligence Division (SCIID) in Port Harcourt for additional investigation.
The Public Relations Officer of the Rivers State Police Command, Superintendent of Police Grace Iringe-Koko, confirmed the incident, stating that the suspect is presently present process additional investigation at SCIID Port Harcourt.
In the meantime, Dennis Otobo, a member of the Affiliation Towards Youngster Sexual Abuse and Gender-Based mostly Violence in Rivers State, has additionally urged the police to finish their investigation and arraign the suspect in court docket immediately.
