Police Arrest 9 Rape Suspects Of Church Members In Enugu State

The Police in Enugu State said they nabbed nine suspected rapists, specialized in raping female members of a church at the outskirts of Enugu.

The Spokesman of the command, Mr Ebere Amaraizu, a Superintendent of Police, disclosed this in a statement in Enugu on Sunday.

Amaraizu said that the arrest was made possible by a “well-co-ordinated intelligence information’’. He said that policemen in Ozalla arrested the suspects during a night vigil in a church located at Akpasha community in Nkanu West Local Government Area.

He said that the suspects were rounded up at about 2 a.m. on Saturday. Amaraizu said that the suspects often pretended to be worshippers in the church and would take advantage of any female worshipper going out to answer nature’s call “and wreck the havoc.”

UCJ, UNILORIN.