Rivers CP Orders Probe Of Officer Over Defilement, Pornography

The Rivers State Commissioner of Police, CP Friday Eboka has ordered a discreet investigation to ascertain the allegation against a senior police officer who was accused of taking a nude picture of an underaged girl under duress and thereafter defiling her. .
The spokesperson of the command in Port Harcourt, SP Grace Iringe-Koko while responding to journalists via text message said, the CP had called both parties in the alleged offence for discreet investigation ,saying that the outcome of the investigation would be made public.
This is coming on the heels of one Binla, 17 years, and resident of the state who alleged that one Inspector of Police (name with held) and his boys stripped her and her friend naked, took their nude video and raped them. She also accused them of stealing her N500,000.
According to Binla, the incident started in March this year in Port Harcourt when she met her friend to help her find a job so that she could not be idle and her friend promised to talk to her man friend to help her.
She told journalists that when they finally met the man and he asked her about her age, she told him that she was 17 years old.
The police officer told her that because of her age, there were some jobs that she could not do but promised to see what he could do and would get back to her soonest .
“After then, he asked us if had eaten, we said no, he gave us his ATM card that we should go and get anything we want to eat. We went and bought food and came back with the ATM card and gave him his ATM card.
“Immediately, he started claiming that he received multiple debits on the ATM card. We quickly asked him the amount involved, he refused to tell us. It was just recently he told us that he has been receiving debt alert to the tune of N500,000 naira”.
“So after that time, he discharged my friend that brought me and kept me with other girls I met there that he gave both of us the ATM card and quickly called his boys and told them we were thieves.
They ordered us to pull our clothes. After pulling our clothes, he recorded our nakedness and told us that if we don’t cooperate with him, he was going to spread the nude videos. He took us to a room and poured us teargas and slept with us till the next morning before discharging us.”
“After then, like after one month, he has been coming, like for three times. Any time he comes if we refused to go with him, he will threaten us that he is going to share our nude videos in social media, then, I will go with him, he will sleep with me.
“This last one he came, I was not around. He told my friend they should tell me to come, when they told me, I refused to go. Then on Monday when I was going to sew my slipper, he met me on the road and asked me if my friend did not tell me to come. I said they told me. He asked me why did I not come. I said nothing. Then he dragged my phone from my hand that I should come with him.
“That when I am ready to pay him the N500,000 that he lost in his account that I should come that is when he would give me the phone,” she stated.
“Reaching today, I went to the Rumupakani (Ada George) Police Station to go and lay complaint. So after then, the police went with me to the man’s house but we did not see him.
“After I went home, people told me some boys came to look for me and I do not know the boys.
“My life is under threat. I don’t know if he is the one that sent the boys. I am calling on the public because my life is under threat”, she stated.
When contacted on phone, the Police Officer said the girls did not come back that night but later gave one of their friends the ATM card to give to him after several hours on that fateful day.
He alleged that he had being receiving debt alert ever since he gave the girls his ATM card even as at Saturday, August 27,2022 he was talking to the press.
He denied taking nude videos of the girls while maintaining that they stole #500,000 naira from his account.
He however, admitted sleeping with the girl but with her consent and he paid her for all the times he had sex with her that he did not rape her.
On the issue of the phone, the Police Officer accepted seizing the girl’s phone last Monday (August 22, 2022) because one of her friends allegedly used her phone to threaten him.
Meanwhile the Centre for Basic Rights Protection and Accountability Campaign has called for a thorough investigation into the incident.
A lawyer with the Human Rights Advocacy group, Centre for Basic Rights Protection and Accountability Campaign, Festus Bonwin Esq in an interview with Journalists advised the police officer to submit himself for Investigation.
Mr Bonwin further called on the police authority to thoroughly investigate the girl and the police officer and if anyone was found culpable, the person should be charged to court.

By: Akujobi Amadi