By Ola ‘Kiya, Reporting
A 13-year-old girl, Favour Doumo, who was kidnapped and brutally gang-raped in a hotel by some suspected cultists, has been rescued by men of the vigilanté service.
The hotel is situated along Bossy Water Road in Etegwe Town, Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.
The girl is said to be a native of Nembe Local Government Area of the state.
Chairman of the State’s Vigilance outfit, Hon. Doubiye Alagba, led members of his team on the operation to rescue Favour.
He confirmed that the girl was rescued and that a gun, phones, cash and other items were recovered from the suspects.
Explaining her ordeal, the victim said she met one of the suspects barely a week before he invited her to the hotel where he resides and made love overtures at her.
According to her, when “I got to the hotel to meet him only for him to accuse me of cheating on him, that while I was away for an examination exercise few days ago, I rather went to meet another man.
“He locked me in the hotel room. And later in the company of his friend, one Efe, used a gun to threaten me that I will not go anywhere.
“They stripped me off my clothes, filmed me with their phones and molested me.
“He told me that he is a gun trafficker and that he has been to prison and that the government knows him.”
Favour also disclosed thatshe cried and screamed all through the night while they threatened to kill her untill she was rescued by the state vigilante security outfit.
The suspect Mr. Christopher Abraham, 37 years old native of Ndoro in Ekeremor Local Government Area, claimed that the victim was his girl friend whom he had spent his money on.
Abraham further claimed that he later discovered that she cheated on him with other men, which was the reason he invited her and they had argument and he went physical with her out of anger.
He also claimed that the gun belonged to his friend, whom he identified as Efe and is now at large.
Chairman of the Bayelsa State Vigilante Service, Hon. Doubiye Alagba, also said the suspect has confessed that he and his accomplice, who is now at large, are members of the Bobo’s cult group.
Alagba said that “the suspects are known drug dealers and they are part of the persons causing unrest in the state.
“Let me also use this medium to warn hotel owners,who harbour criminals as guests in their hotels, to desist or face the law.”
Alagba noted that already the special squad of the vigilante outfit in the coming weeks will be storming more hotels that are known to be harbouring criminals across the state.
He assured members of the public of the outfit’s readiness to continue to ensure the safety of lives and properties of the citizens of the state.
Meanwhile the suspect has been handed over to the state security outfit, Operation Doo-Akpo of the Nigerian Police Force, Bayelsa State Command.
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