65-year-old in police net for defilement of minor, as man beheads woman

A 65-year-old man, Emeka Asibirionwu, is in police net for allegedly raping a two-year-old girl at Oriendu, near Umuahia, the Abia State capital.
Leye Oyebade, the Abia State Commissioner of Police, who addressed newsmen on Monday in Umuahia, said the suspect was arrested on September 28.
Oyebade said that Asibirionwu was “arrested when the victim’s mother raised an alarm on sighting her daughter crying, while blood and fluid were gushing out from her private part”.
He said the victim’s mother reportedly kept the minor in the custody of the suspect, who was her neighbour, when the incident happened.
The suspect, however, denied the allegation in an interview with newsmen.
He said that he was in his house around 10pm when the victim’s mother accosted him, screaming and accusing him of having defiled her daughter.
He said that he declined the demand that he should provide the money for the victim’s medical treatment because he knew he was innocent of the allegation.
Also paraded was one Emmanuel Effiong, who was arrested for allegedly beheading an unidentified woman in Aba.
Effiong, who pleaded guilty in an interview with newsmen, said he beheaded the woman in the night and threw the head into Aba River.
He blamed the gruesome act on a spiritualist who, according to him, advised him to perform the act as a sacrifice to avert an imminent danger of running mad.
The commissioner of police also paraded three final-year undergraduates of a tertiary institution.
Speaking with newsmen, the suspects admitted that they were members of a six-member gang which allegedly dispossessed somebody of a Toyota Highlander Jeep in Umuahia on October 10.
One of the suspects, Chimezie Chukwu,24, told newsmen that the gang specialised in car-snatching and that the incident, which led to their arrest was his third experience.
Besides the Highlander, a Mercedes Benz, with Reg. No. AG 467 NEM was also recovered from the suspects.
Other items are one AK 47 rifle with two magazines, containing 31 rounds of live ammunition and one locally-made revolver pistol with four rounds of live ammunition, among others.
The commissioner, who expressed concern over the rising cases of crime and criminality in Abia State, involving undergraduates, restated the commitment of the command to check the phenomenon.