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A 20-year-old man, identified as Uche was caught by the Diobu Vigilante group allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl in an uncompleted building on Ekwe Street, Mile 3 Diobu, Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
Uche was
caught in the act around 1pm by people who saw him and his friends forcing the teenager into the uncompleted building and the suspect was immediately handed over to the police while others escaped.
Nnamdi Omoni, the Police Public Relations agreed with this incident in his statement: “Around 1pm, people called me from Ekwe Street, Mile 3 Diobu, Port Harcourt, that they saw some boys trying to rape a girl and I quickly sent my men to the scene.When my men got to the place, they caught one Uche raping a girl, who is about 16 or 17 years old while he
was having carnal knowledge of the victim and brought him to our office. I immediately called the Divisional Police Officer of the Nkpolu Police Division, who sent a team and picked up the suspect and the victim.There were three of them, who participated in the act, but the others saw our men and escaped, but Uche, who was already having carnal knowledge of the girl, was caught.”
