The Enugu State Police Command on Monday, April 6th, 2020 said it arrested a middle-aged man, identified as Abba Kyari Mohammed, for alleged assault and rape of a 68-year-old woman in Umulungbe town, Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State.

The suspected rapist, who is a native of Jalingo in Taraba State, was alleged to have committed the crime on Saturday, April 4th, 2020.

The Enugu State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Daniel Ndukwe, confirmed the incident. He said on Monday, April 6th, in an interview that the suspect had already been transferred from 9th Mile Police Division to the State Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation and subsequent prosecution.

Ndukwe said,

It is a case of assault and alleged ‘rape’ of 68-year-old woman in Umulegbe community. The women went to the bush on April 4 to pick cashew nuts. They were accosted by a man who was passing by and he used stick to flog them up and at the cause of beating them, one of them ran back to the village and alerted villagers.

Youths came out in their number and mobbed the alleged rapist; save for the intervention of the security men, he would have been killed. They also alleged that the suspect raped the other woman who is about 68-years before they could come.

The PPRO added,

The suspect was arrested, taken to clinic with woman he allegedly raped and they were treated and the matter has been transferred to the State CID from the 9th Mile Police Division for further investigation,

he said.

Ndukwe, who is an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), refuted the claim that the alleged rapist was a Fulani herdsman, saying:

there was nothing like Fulani herdsman in the case.

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