The Rivers state police command
yesterday paraded, Ifeanyi Dike, the UNIPORT undergraduate who raped, murdered
and removed vital parts of his eight-year-old niece, Chikasom, in Port
Harcourt, Rivers state last month.
Dike was arrested on August 19th while
trying to dispose of her body after removing some of her vital organs. He was
taken into police custody at the Okporo police station but however escaped
on Sunday, August 20th and had been on the run.
He was rearrested in Jos, Plateau
state last week. While being paraded before newsmen in the state command's
office, Dike said power outage helped him escape from police custody.
"At the State Criminal
Investigation Department, SCID, after I entered my statement late in the
evening of the day of my first parade, my IPO asked me to go inside the cell.
That was when I had the opportunity to run away. My IPO did not help me escape.
I know what I did was wrong, please forgive me and have mercy.” he said
The suspect said he was
re-arrested after he attempted to steal food in Plateau state where he had
escaped to.
“I escaped to Jos. Having stayed
for several days without food and due to the injuries I sustained, I was unable
to get food to eat. So due to the hunger, I decided to source for food and that
was where I was caught and handed over to the Police.
When I got to the Police
station, at first I was hiding my identity, but on interrogation, I got fed up
and gave them (Police) my aunty’s phone number. As soon as the Police called my
aunt, she told them that I was declared wanted by the Rivers State Police
Command.
She also handed my IPO’s phone number to the Police officers and they
later confirmed that I am on the wanted list. After I was confirmed, I was
detained and returned back to Rivers State on Sunday.” he said
The suspect said the dismissed
police officer, Johnbosco Okoroeze, was innocent and that the officer did not
help him escape from police custody.
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