SAN FRANCISCO, August 21, (THEWILL) – A suspected ritualist, Ifeanyi Dike, who was paraded at the weekend by the Rivers State Police Command for raping and killing an eight-year-old girl residing in the same compound with him at Eliozu Axis of Port Harcourt has escaped from Police custody.
The bereaved father of the girl, Dr. Ernest Mezuwuba, who disclosed this to newsmen in Port Harcourt, stated that the suspect escaped from police custody shortly after writing his statement at the States Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, same day he was paraded by the police with the corpse of the innocent girl.
According to Mezuwuba, “After I finished writing my statement and the suspect wrote his, he told the police that he wanted to drink water and the next thing I heard was help, catch him, he is running away and the officer just returned and said he has escaped.”
The traumatised father urged Police to ensure that the 200 Level student of the University of Port Harcourt was rearrested to face justice and for the safety of other innocent people.
The Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Zaki Ahmed, confirmed the disturbing incident, adding that the police officer who caused the escape, John Bosco, has been arrested and detained.
Assuring that they would soon track down the suspected ritualist, Ahmed called on members of the public to volunteer information that would lead to the re-arrest of Dike.
THEWILL recalls that the arrest of the 23-year-old 200-level student of the Faculty of Science, University of Port Harcourt was for allegedly killing an eight-year-old girl named Victory Chikamso. The suspect had previously been handed over to the police after being caught by a local vigilance group in the Eliozu axis of Port Harcourt.
Reports say he gourged out the victim’s eyes, and removed her vagina, finger and tongue, after defiling and murdering her. Dike was arrested by the local vigilante while attempting to dispose off the body.
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