The suspect was apprehended alongside 18 suspected criminals involved in various forms of crimes.
The police in Ekiti
State have arrested a middle-aged man simply identified as Femi for allegedly
raping a teenager.
Femi was arrested
after he also abducted the girl and hid her for three days in an isolated
location.
He was said to have
committed the crime at the Ajilosun area of the state before he was eventually
arrested.
The suspect was
apprehended alongside 18 suspected criminals involved in various forms of
crimes.
Tunde Mobayo,
Commissioner for Police in Ekiti, who paraded the suspects in Ado Ekiti, the
state capital, said they were all arrested following intelligence reports.
Mobayo said the
suspect lured the victim into his apartment and forced the girl to take a
beverage mixed with hard drugs.
He said, “During
interrogation, the suspect confessed to have committed the crime by forcing the
victim to drink a beverage already mixed with hard drugs through which she lost
her consciousness for three days and he had carnal knowledge of her."
The Commissioner of
Police went on to reveal that the others arrested for various crimes including
cultism and robbery were found with dangerous weapons.
He said, “On the
09/08/2020, five suspects were arrested and confessed to being members of the
Black Axe (Aiye) secret confraternity at Ikere-Ekiti, during initiation rites
at the scene of the arrest. They include Ojo Ademola, Fatuki Tosin, Sani
Mohammed, a.k.a. Tom-tom, Fagbehingbe Timilehin, Ayodeji and Arowosegbe Okiri.
“The command
recovered various items like Beretta pistol, two Dane guns, one wooden carved
gun, one wooden mask, two cutlasses, charms, battle axe and a carton of
Hi-mobile phone, phone accessories, different tile, communication recharge
cards.
“A gang of masked
men numbering four robbed their victims at gunpoint and blocked Aisegba/Ilumoba
expressway and stole cash, one HP laptop computer valued at N80,000 and later
we arrested one of the gang members, Solomon Alexander.”
He added that all
suspects would be arraigned in court for prosecution upon completion of
investigation.
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