BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON
Operatives of the Edo State Police Command have arrested a 28-year-old assistant truck driver, Abdurazak Ibrahim, for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl in Edo state.
The incident was said to have happened on September 13 at Uromi in Esan South East Local Government Area of the state.
Edo State Police Command’s spokesperson, SP Chidi Nwabuzor, while parading the suspect, said the victim’s father, Tony Ekata reported to the police that Abdurazak Ibrahim raped his daughter.
Nwabuzor said the suspect who is an assistant driver called the victim while she was hawking groundnuts along Ivue-Irrua Road, Uromi, Edo State with pretense to buy some groundnuts from her.
“The suspect attacked and pushed her inside the vehicle and forcefully had sex with her. The police stormed the scene and arrested the suspect.
“The suspect confessed to the crime while the victim was taken to the hospital for medical examination.
“He would soon be charged to court as soon as investigation is completed”, He stated.
The suspect who claims to hail from Oyo state, denied the allegation, while peaking with our correspondent, saying he was falsely accused.
“We were travelling on the Agbor Road to Okpella and gets stocked at Uromi due to the bad road. We were there for days. On this day, we called the girl who was hawking groundnuts and I bought 100 groundnut from her. And my colleague said the girl is calm and that I should marry her, I jokingly said while coming back I will seek her parent hand in marriage and she left.
“But after three hours later, I was sleeping inside the vehicle when the girl came to me and ask me if I was serious about the marriage I talked about, we were inside the vehicle when one boy came and accused me of raping her.
“I told him that nothing of such happened, and the girl also said that I didn’t rape and they all left. After a while, some boys came and accused me of raping the girl and they took me to the station. I didn’t rape her,” he explained.
