23yrs old girl raped on gunpoint in Ebonyi

A rape victim, one Chinenye Nwizzi, a 23 years old girl yesterday lamented how she was raped on gunpoint by a rapist who firstly snatched her phone along Ezza road in Abakaliki, capital of Ebonyi state. It was gathered that the rapist, one Emeka Chukwuani, a married man from Awgu, Enugu State. He sells bicycles somewhere along Ezza Road, Abakaliki here. Nwizzi revealed that she was returning home lately together with her younger sister, when the rapist accosted them and snatched her phone and ran into Fatilami Park, Abakaliki, where the rape took place. According to her: “I was going home with my younger sister. That was around 8pm. We saw this man on the way. He stopped and wanted to talk to us,but we continued to move.

He followed us and snatched my phone and ran into Fatilami Park. We ran after him to give us our phone. Immediately we go to the photo stand, he grabbed my neck and we began to struggle.  “As we struggled, he was biting me everywhere including my ear, my cheek, my shoulder,my back and somewhere close to my private part. My sister was shouting but nobody was there to help us.  “When my sister was trying to draw him away from my body, he broke a bottle on her head and she ran outside crying while I was shouting inside. It was when he hit my mouth with the bottle that I became somehow unconscious and I woke later to see he had raped me.

“I was surprised when I heard gun shots and two persons came inside. He tried to run away but they apprehended him. That’s when I realized they were police officers. They saved me and my sister” she noted. However, the chairman of the human Right activist in Ebonyi state, Sampson Oko Nweke who assisted in the arrest said the suspect must be jailed. According to him: “we got a distress call, reporting that someone (a young girl) was being raped at Fatilami Park, Abakaliki. Immediately, we made sporadic phone calls and the alleged rapist was arrested by the police as he was already fleeing.