Two men, a commercial motorcycle
operator and a motor park ticket agent, on Wednesday evening allegedly
took turns to rape a 28-year-old petty trader in Awka, after luring her
to the bush with a promise to pay her N2, 000 owed her by one of them.
One of the rapists who was later
apprehended by passersby however escaped from a moving police patrol van
as he was being taken to the police station, after the angry mob had
handed him over.
The victim said that she had accosted
the motor park ticket agent who was owing her N2,000, but the man
pleaded that he had no money with him, requested her to accompany him
on a commercial motorcycle to his friend’s house so he can retrieve his
own debt to pay her.
Without suspecting a trap, the lady
obliged him as she had closed for the day but he rather took her to a
bush near Udoka Estate in Awka, where the two men forcefully undressed
her and took turns to assault her before bringing her back to town.
She regained confidence once the
motorbike hit town, and started shouting on top of her voice, rocking
the bike until she and one of the rapist fell off, while the rider sped
on, leaving behind his partner in crime.
The incident, an eye witness told
LEADERSHIP, attracted passersby at the popular UNIZIK Junction beside
Access Bank, and young men arrested the rapist, when the lady tendered
from her hand bag her pant and bra which were torn to shred by the
rapists as evidence.
The crowd held the suspect down until
the police arrived, but he was said to have escaped from the officers on
the way to their station.
At the time of filing this report,
LEADERSHIP was unable to ascertain if both rapists had been apprehended
as the Anambra State police command’s public relations officer, ASP
Emeka Chukwuemeka, could not be reached on his mobile phone for
comments.
