The Enugu State Police Command, on Wednesday, dispelled reported r¢pe of at least 20 ladies at a musical concert, which featured popstar, Chinedu Okoli, a.k.a Flavour.
The concert which held at the Michael Okpara Square, Enugu on Saturday, ended with news circulating in the media that 20 ladies were r¢ped. However, spokesman of the Police in the State, SP Ebere Amaraizu has disclosed that neither the State command headquarters nor any of its division had received report from any victim over the reported rape.
He said; “There is no reported case anywhere in the Enugu State Police command. We don’t have any incident arising from that event; whoever that has any should come forward, and we will look at it. That event was organized by Flavour as a way of giving back to the society, because he grew up here in Enugu. We won’t want a situation where people sit down somewhere and manufacture stories because he who asserts must also prove.
"You even begin to ask yourself, those people that quoted number of the r¢pe victims as 20, how did they do the counting? Does it mean they were following the r¢pists around the taking the data? Or the victims were assembled at one place and r¢ped? Who are these victims? So, people cannot just sit down and say 1000 persons have been r¢ped whereas there is no evidence to substantiate that. People are just abusing the social media because I understand that someone just tweeted it and it began to spread."
While noting that “the handiwork of mischief makers cannot be ruled out”, the PPRO further stated that “these are people who are always there to cause panic in the minds of law-abiding residents of the State, to cause terror in the their mind and to rubish the good work being done by the security agents and the State Government. So, as far the command in concerned, we do not have any reported case of r¢pe arising from that event or after the event. Any person who has any claim on the contrary should come up with it and we will take it up from there. It is quite lamentable and disgusting for people to wallow in such imagination and feed the public with it.”
From Daily Post
So the stories just jumped out? Originated from nowhere. Numbers just might be exaggerated but have they gone on the streets to investigate?
ReplyDeletePolice lie too much I know something must have happened at a point yesterday I thought about the rape issue like how are the victims feeling and the rapist how do they sleep at night?
ReplyDeleteHmmmmmn.
ReplyDeletenothing happened abeg was live at the event .
ReplyDeleteConcerts, paid or free i dunt like it.
ReplyDeleteI wondered how true it was
ReplyDeleteI really don't understand this whole thing,like what was the security personnels doing at the time all this was happening and even the people at the concert..How did they manage to do that with the crowd and not get caught
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