Suspect who defiled, raped 15-year-old woman not police officer – Delta CP Erale

Delta State Commissioner of Police, CP Samuel Etaifo Erale, has mentioned {that a} suspect, Ezekiel Pius, who was arrested by operatives over an alleged defilement of a fifteen-year-old woman, isn’t a police officer. CP Erale mentioned this in a WhatsApp message despatched to a DAILY POST correspondent in Warri.

The State Police boss, who’s on a tour of the state, famous that the matter has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, for correct investigation.

According to him, “The suspect is not a police officer. The case has been transferred to SCID for proper investigation.”

It can be recalled that operatives from Effurun Area Command in Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State have arrested the suspect, a pretend Mobile Policeman on guard responsibility at a non-public college close to Regal Clinic alongside Jakpa Road in Effurun.

It was learnt that the suspect allegedly molested and took benefit of the sufferer a number of instances, anytime she got here to high school and every time she was about to go residence, at their safety put up, with a risk to kill her if she ever reported the matter to anybody, together with her mother and father.

It was gathered that the matter got here to the information of the sufferer’s father, after she confided in a buddy who reported the incident to her mother and father.

Meanwhile, a Warri-based human rights activist, Comrade Israel Joe, in an announcement on his Facebook timeline, known as for a clear investigation into the matter to ensure that the suspect to face the total wrath of the legislation.

Joe additionally mentioned there ought to be an investigation into how the suspect received arms and police uniforms.

According to Joe, “Information available to me is that he isn’t a real police officer.”