We Raped Countless Women Everyday,  Suspects State.
Members of a threeman gang
have told the police in
Akwa Ibom State that they could not remember the
number of women they had raped.
The suspects specialised in going round Uyo
metropolis , using a commercial tricycle to pick unsuspecting
 female passengers before hypnotising and raping them.
Parading members of the gang at the weekend at
the State Command Headquarters, Uyo , the Police
Public Relations Officer (PPRO ), ASP Cordelia
Nwawe , said they were apprehended by a team of Special Anti- Robbery
 (SARS) and State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID)
 following a tip - off by one of their victims.
The suspects, Utebe Archibong (29 ), Charles Essien
(27 ) and James Etim (24 ), the PPRO said,
succeeded because the victim (name withheld ) said one of her
 abductors pretended to be a commercial tricycle rider, while the
 remaining two pretended to be passengers.
According to Nwawe, the victim, a University of Uyo
student , while aboard the tricycle, was hypnotised
and then taken to a place where she was raped several times.
 Thereafter, the suspects made her to swear to an oath never
 to reveal the incident to anyone, else she would die.

But she summoned the courage and narrated her
ordeal to her roommates in the hostel who advised
her to report the incident to the police who swooped on the rapists.

The suspects, who confessed to the crime, said
many young women had fallen prey to their
pranks. The suspects said they had been raping for
a very long time. Paraded alongside the rape
suspects was Christian Ekung (27 ), who was nabbed for
 planning to kidnap his aunt, Mrs. Mary Asuquo Inyang,
 a resident of Oron Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.
Nwawe disclosed that the suspect, who lives in Lagos, came into
the state after strategizing with some friends on how to abduct the aunt
 for ransom.
However, luck ran out on him as his felonious plan was divulged to
the police by the same friends. The suspect, the PPRO added, was
going to abduct the aunt and demand a ransom of
N3million.
But Ekung denied that he came in from Lagos to kidnap his aunt who ,
 according to him, has been his benefactor.
 The suspect said he returned to the state because one of his friends had told him he
had a job for him.

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