A 20-year-old man,
Chijioke Nwakor, from Aniocha, Anambra State is
now in Police custody for allegedly raping a nine-year-old girl to
death.
The suspect who is currently detained at the Criminal
Investigation Department (CID), state Police headquarters, Diamond Hill,
Calabar is alleged to have engaged Miss Alice Eneji in a marathon love
making which resulted in the girl’s death.
Chijioke told the officer heading the homicide
unit of the state CID, Mr. Joseph Inuyashe, that he was born in Aniocha
Local Government Area, but grew up in Onistha, Anambra until recently
when he relocated to Okuku-Yala Local Government in Cross River State
where he is living with his parents.
He said since he came to
Cross River State, he had abstained from women, regretting that his
first attempt to make love to a girl of his desire has resulted in
tragedy.
He said: “I used to see the girl everyday in Okuku-Yala,
where I stay with my parents. I don’t know what pushed me last Monday
to approach her.
“As I saw her playing with the three boys at
Saint Patrick’s Primary School, Okuku football field, I called her and
asked what she was doing there. I told her to go home and meet her
mother.”
The advice took an amorous dimension as it started
drizzling and Chijioke and Alice had to take shelter under one of the
school buildings.
It was then he said: “I discussed with her and
she accepted so I took her to one of the abandoned buildings that has
been overtaken by weeds, where I told her to remove her underwears and
she complied.”
Claiming there was mutual agreement between them,
the boy dismissed allegation that he raped her, saying: “I did not slap
her or do anything to her.
“I told her to bend down because the
place was too dirty. The uncompleted building is now used as a toilet,
because most people living around there had no toilet.”
Chijioke said he then went for marathon love-making but Alice started crying but he thought she was pretending.
Few minutes later, Alice slumped and became unconscious and he decided to raise alarm calling for help.
Alice was rushed to hospital while Chijioke went round the community sourcing for money to foot the hospital bill.
“I was still looking for money when somebody called me that the girl was dead,” he said.
When
contacted, acting Police Public Relations Officer of the Command, Mr.
Hogan Bassey confirmed the incident, saying the culprit is in custody
and that they were investigating the immediate and remote cause of such a
criminal act. According to him, Chijioke will be charged to Court.
Source: Vanguard
