Six boys have been arrested for allegedly gang-raping a 19-year-old girl in Anam, Anambra West Local Government Area (LGA) of Anambra State.
According to reports, the suspects: Afam Ezenwa, Chijioke Ifeanyi, Collins Obadom, Abuchi Okechukwu, Chima Obiekezie and Sunday Okafor were arrested following a viral video.
Confirming the arrest, Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare, Ify Obinabo said the victim had been rescued. She said the case had been transferred to the Police Criminal Investigative Department in Awka from where they would be charged.
She reassured that the Governor Chukwuma Soludo-led administration would not tolerate any form of crime in the state, stressing that justice would take its full course. Narrating her ordeal, the victim said, “It all happened when I visited my maternal home in Oramaetiti and was ambushed by a group of young boys who took me to a room and took turns in d£filing me.
Despite my plea, the boys who were between the ages of 16,17,18,20 and 27 years old respectively did not stop but continued while one of them was f#lming me during the act,” she said.
We urge the government take the case seriously because our daughter’s life is at risk especially now we are yet to retrieve her personal effect,” the victim’s parents said.
