A middle-aged man, identified as Onuora Innoma, who was arrested for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl at Ado Girls Secondary School, Onitsha, Anambra State, will be charged in court next week Wednesday, The Courage.
The Anambra State police spokesman, Tochukwu Ikenga, who disclosed this in Awka on Thursday, said the suspect admitted to the crime during interrogation, assuring that justice would be served.
It was reported that the state Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, through the state Commissioner for Education, Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, had ordered the immediate arrest and prosecution of the suspect, after he was detained at the Inland Town Police Division, Onitsha.
The suspect was also said to always laid ambush around the school premises while preying on his victim, whom he always lured into a lonely bush path to commit the dastardly act.
The governor, who frowned on the nefarious act of preying on innocent girls, vowed to take every available legal means to bring the perpetrator to book.
Ikenga, in Thursday’s statement, said investigation on the matter was still ongoing, adding that the suspect would be arraigned next week Wednesday.
“It is a case of rape, and the first respondent is the Inland Town Police station before it was transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Awka.
“We invited the victim and carried out some tests on her to confirm the alleged defilement and the tests authenticated she was defiled. “We were able to arrest the suspect and brought him to book. During the interrogation, he confessed to the crime,” the police spokesperson added.
