The Divisional Police Officer of a police station in Aba, Abia State (names withheld), has allegedly raped a lady to death inside his office.
The lady whose name was given as Princess Zainab Chinasa Uwakwe, and said to be very close to a serving senior police officer from Abia State, was said to have approached the DPO on telephone over a matter her relation had at a police station. But the DPO invited her over for a supposed discussion on the matter.
In honouring the invitation, our man learnt that Princess, who hailed from Amakpor Igbere in Bende Local Government of the state, went to the police station in company with a young man, Nkem Igbokwe, who waited outside while the lady went in to see her supposed host.
A reliable source hinted that as soon as the lady who was said to be an aspirant under the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) for Aba North state constituency, entered the DPO’s office, she was offered suya and a bottle of drink bought for her by the police officer.
The police officer was alleged to have locked the door behind them, preventing his subordinates and visitors from having access to the office. But the cat was let out of the bag when, after the sex, the lady started gasping for breath while blood gushed from her private part. It was reported that immediately that happened, the DPO called in a patrol team led by one inspector to rush her to the hospital. On getting to the hospital, according to the report, the victim, who the police fictitiously gave her name as Princess Nnenne Udah to the hospital authorities, gave up the ghost.
It was gathered that while the young man who accompanied the lady to the police station was still waiting outside, the police patrol team, carried the lady out of the DPO’s office through the back gate to New Era Hospital. Investigations, which suggest the DPO might have drugged either the suya or the drink he gave the deceased to make her dose off in order to have illicit affairs with her emerged when it was gathered the lady had severally rebuffed overtures of the police officer.
This indication was given by the younger sister of the deceased, Nkechi, who told Daily Sun that “my sister was raped; her neck and lips were swollen; it was like she was battling with the DPO inside his office. She was discharging foam from her mouth and blood was gushing from her private part. In fact, she was brought to the hospital without her bra and underwear,” she said amidst sobs.
It was the talk in the police station that the officer might have taken burantashi, a local substance that enhances and energizes male organs, before raping his victim. When Daily Sun visited the police station, some officers were seen in groups discussing the incident. One of them who spoke under the cover of anonymity said, “the DPO has been a source of embarrassment to us. He has been sexually harassing our female officers here and nobody questions him because he boasts he is well connected within the state and outside.”
Efforts made to reach the DPO who was said to be unruffled over the incident as he was in office yesterday failed, as he neither picked calls made to his cell phone nor replied text messages. When contacted, the Area Commander, Nigeria Police, Aba Area Command, Mr. Ebere Onyeagoro said he had heard about the incident, but was yet to be briefed officially. He, however, said the cause of the lady’s death could only be determined through autopsy, which, he said, the police were yet to carry out.
Some people who spoke to our reporter over the incident said it was unfortunate that while residents of Aba were yet to come out of the rape orgies their women experienced in the hands of kidnappers, a police officer of the standing of a DPO would add to the list. They called for probe.
