ONITSHA—Vigilance operatives attached to Millennium
Merchant Line, Sokoto Road Market, near Onitsha Main
Market, Onitsha, Anambra State, yesterday, apprehended a
middle-aged man over his alleged involvement in kidnapping
a 12-year old girl in Enugu State.
The suspect, whose name was given as Ambrose Amaechi,
according to sources, had allegedly abducted his victim
whom he identified on arrest as Miss Charity Okoh in Enugu
but on getting to Onitsha, he was apprehended inside the
market at “Importers Line.”
The suspect, who claimed to be residing at Onitsha Military
Cantonment, confessed that he was at the market to buy a
new skirt for the victim as remaining in her school uniform
would make people suspect foul play.
The source said the suspect drew attention of the vigilance
operatives and the public when the victim started undressing
at the centre of the market, exposing all parts of her body.
The source stated that not wanting to take any chances, the
traders alerted the chairman of the market, Chief Valentine
Ezechukwu and his Secretary, Mr. Ikenna Igboamaeze, who
arrived the scene shortly after the suspect and the victim
had been taken away by the market security operatives.
On reaching the security office, the victim who had now
regained her consciousness, narrated that she was in her
school uniform going to school in Enugu on Monday morning
when the suspect called her and she answered, thinking that
he had a message for her and hung a necklace round her
neck and she immediately became unconscious.
She said that while she could no longer realize herself, they
both boarded a vehicle to Onitsha, adding that she still
remained unconscious until she started removing the
necklace hung on her neck while attempting to change to a
new skirt bought for her by the suspect on the scene which
attracted the attention of the traders and his consequent
arrest by the operatives.
The arrest, which drew the attention of the entire market and
the adjoining Onitsha Main Market Traders disrupted
business activities for about an hour before the Chairman,
Ezechukwu; the Secretary, Igboamaeze and other members
of the executive ordered the traders to return to their
businesses.
Meanwhile, both the suspect, Amaechi and the victim, Charity
have been handed over to the Department of Security
Service, DSS, for further interrogations.
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