The Cross River State
Police command has paraded seventy-eight persons suspected to have committed
various crimes in the state, among them a 48- year old Pastor who defiled his
twelve-year-old housemaid.
According to the Cross
River State Commissioner of Police, Mr Hafiz Mohammed Inuwa, Pastor Dominic Udo
John forcefully defiled his house 12-year-old housemaid, Enobong John Etim and
following the victim’s cry for help, the Police arrested him.
According to Vanguard,
Inuwa, who also paraded seventy-seven other suspected criminals and cultists,
told Journalists during a press briefing in Calabar on Wednesday that John, who
lives at Ikot Ekpo, near 8th miles, has admitted to committing the crime.
His words:
”On 11th March 2018, at
about 2200hrs, one Pastor Dominic Udo John (48) of Ikot Ekpo, 8th miles Calabar
was arrested for forcefully defiling his 12yrs old housemaid, Enobong John
Etim. Following the victim’s outcry, the suspect was arrested and admitted to
committing the crime.
Meanwhile, medical
examination has been carried out by a qualified medical practitioner to
ascertain the health status of the girl the suspect will be charged to court.”
Similarly, the Police also
paraded twenty five-year-old Michael Emmanuel Okon of No. 2 Ikot Effa street,
Calabar for defiling nine-year-old Destiny Uduak Sunday after dragging her into
his living room.
According to Inuwa, Destiny
has been examined by a medical practitioner for confirmation of her health
status, but described the defilement as “abominable.”
The commissioner also
paraded a 27-year-old woman, Veronica James Usim of Ekong Anaku village in
Akamkpa local government area of the state for carrying in a sack bag, fourteen
packs of live cartridges; he said she could not explain the source.
The commissioner has said
about 324 firearms of different categories, either English or locally made,
have been recovered from various groups and individuals in furtherance of the
instruction by the Inspector General that all unlawful arms should be mopped
up.
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