Police apprehend five for kidnap, raping of teenager

MAKURDI — Men of the Benue State Police Command have arrested a three-man gang,which allegedly kidnapped and raped a 15-year-old girl in Makurdi, the Benue State
capital.Also nabbed by the command was a two-man robbery gang, which specialised in dispossessing their victims of their Ipads and computers.
According to a statement by the Benue State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr Daniel Ezeala, the police were “alerted by a man that his 15-year-old cousin was last
Friday repeatedly raped by a four-man gang,which kidnapped her at 7:30pm. “They abducted their victim into a red Toyota Camry and drove her to Apir, in the outskirts of Makurdi town, where they took turns to have carnal knowledge of her against her
consent.”
“But, acting on the information, our men swung into action and three of the suspects were arrested while the police are still on the trail of the fourth suspect.” Ezeala added that officers of the command, who were on a stop and search duty, arrested
two robbery suspects, consequent upon a robbery alarmed raised by a victim, who was robbed and pushed out of a moving Toyota Camry car with number plate, AV 566 MKD.
He said the “duo of Emmanuel Omale and Ahmed Deedat were arrested near the Police Secondary School in Demekpe area of Makurdi town in possession of one locally made pistols.”