Akwa Ibom Youths Track Fleeing Rape Suspect

At last, nemesis has caught up with 1 Christopher Linus Augustine, 28, from Ikot Abia assemblage successful the Eket section authorities country of Akwa Ibom State, who is alleged to person abducted a 14-year-old insignificant connected her mode from school, took her to an uncompleted gathering and sexually assaulted her.

The victim, LEADERSHIP gathered, is simply a Junior Secondary School (JSS2) schoolgirl successful Ikot Ataku successful Eket LGA, portion the fishy hails from the neighbouring Ikot Abia village.

The victim, though having code impairment, it was learnt, was capable to picture him arsenic being “fair successful complexion and having a tattoo people connected his manus and shoulder,” which gave him distant to the section vigilantes who combed the vicinity successful hunt of him.

“Acting connected intelligence, the younker president of Ikot Abia, Comrade Ubong Ekpo, successful collaboration with the colony head, Chief Monday Essiet and different younker leaders, tracked the suspects and handed him implicit to the police,” Bassey Effiong, a resident, told our correspondent.

He recalled that the fishy had, connected Friday, 10th October, 2025, nether the dense rain, equipped with a machete, dragged the unfortunate (name withheld), who was returning from school, to an uncompleted gathering and raped her.

“The miss cried out, but her dependable couldn’t beryllium heard by neighbours due to the fact that of the dense rainfall that peculiar day,” helium explained.

According to household sources, “the incidental was reported to the colony caput of Ikot Abia, who directed that the lawsuit beryllium reported to the constabulary for contiguous action. After the introduction was entered astatine the constabulary station, the miss was referred to Immanuel Hospital, Eket, for exigency treatment.”

Another resident, Inemesit Silas, said, “Help, however, came for her from a authorities authoritative aft being briefed astir the incidental by a acrophobic national done a dependable note, requesting assistance for the victim, who is an orphan.

“The idiosyncratic adjunct (PA) to the Governor connected New Media, Ubong Creativity David, who visited the miss astatine the hospital, made a fiscal committedness for punctual aesculapian attraction to beryllium administered to her,” she added.