… ‘I gave them, N200, Bread’ says Suspect
A 40 year old man, Festus Okeke has been arrested and paraded by the Police in Niger state for raping four underaged girls in Paikoro local government area the state.
Okeke who was arrested by the Police Operatives attached to Kafin-koro in Paikoro LGA confessed that he gave the girls loaves of bread and N200 to use for the celebration of Easter.
Our Correspondent gathered that, the community reported Festus Okeke to the Police in Paikoro after one of the girls told their parents what he had done.
Upon interrogation, Okeke, a father of four told Journalists on Wednesday that, he had sex with two of the girls and engaged in gross indecency with the two other minors.
Reports have it that the girls are between the ages of 10 to 13 years.
He was said to have lured the four girls into his shop at Ishau village during and after Easter celebration, where he alledgedly had canal knowledge with two of the girls while he fiddled with private parts of two other girls with his fingers.
Okeke according to findings is said to be a serial rapist who had been prosecuted at the Chief Magistrate Court 1 in Minna for similar incidents.
While speaking to Journalists at the Niger state Police Headquarters in Minna, the suspect said “I gave the girls loaves of bread and N200 to use for the celebration of Easter. It was a mistake and I regret engaging in the act”.
The Niger state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Wasiu Abiodun said that the case is under investigation and the suspect will be charged to court as soon as the investigation is concluded.
