Security
agents at Millennium Merchant Line, Sokoto Road Market, Onitsha yesterday
arrested a middle-aged man, Mr. Ambrose Amaechi for allegedly abducting a
twelve year old girl from Enugu to Onitsha, Anambra State.
According
to the suspect, who said he resides at Onitsha Military Cantonment and working
under a man popularly known as God Father, he was at the market to buy a new
skirt so that the girl would change to new attire as it was suspicious for her
to remain in her school uniform.
Suspicion
arose when the suspect took the girl who was identified as Miss Charity Okoh to
purchase a new skirt for her, and the teenager undressed at the centre of the
market exposing her private part.
The
girl’s strange behavior, the traders thought may have been induced by drugs and
not wanting to leave anything to chances the traders, however, alerted the
chairman of the market, Chief Valentine Ezechukwu and his Secretary, Mr. Ikenna
Igboamaeze who now arrived the scene.
But
before their arrival the suspect and the victim had been taken away by market
security operatives.
The
security agents told reporters that the girl confessed that she was in her
school uniform going to school in Enugu yesterday morning when the suspect
called her and hung a necklace round her neck and she immediately became
unconscious.
While
she could no longer realize herself according to the victim they both boarded a
vehicle to Onitsha. She stated that she regained consciousness only when she
removed the necklace hung around her neck while attempting to change to a new
skirt bought for her by the suspect.
The
incident which drew the attention of the entire market and the adjoining
Onitsha Main Market Traders, however, disrupted business activities for about
one hour before the Chairman, Chief Valentine Ezechukwu, the Secretary, Mr.
Igboamaeze and other members of the executives ordered the traders to commence
with their businesses.
However,
the suspect, Amaechi and the victim, Miss Charity Okoh have been handed over to
the Department of Security Service (DSS) for further investigations.
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