The Edo State Police Command said it has arrested a 40-year-old man, Monday Obakpian for raping a 14-year-old girl (name withheld).
Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, SP Moses Yamu disclosed this in an X post.
Obakpian, of Odo quarters in Ibillo, Akoko Edo Local Government Area, was said to have lured the minor into his room under the guise of sending her on an errand.
Yamu said, “He took advantage of that situation and forcefully had carnal knowledge of her.”
He added that it took the effort of a neighbour who called in the police when he heard the victim screaming from the suspect’s room.
Yamu said the suspect has confessed to the crime and will soon be charged in court. “The command, in the spirit of this year’s theme for the campaign against Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) ‘‘Safety, everywhere and always’’ is calling on each one of us to contribute to preventing or stopping such violence, especially against women and girls,” he said.
Yamu added that the command would do everything in its power to protect the vulnerable and bring perpetrators of such dastard acts to book.
