The
suspected ritualist, who was paraded at the weekend by the Rivers States Police
Command for raping and killing an eight-year-old girl in Eliozu axis of Port
Harcourt,
Ifeanyi Dike, has escaped from the police custody.
The bereaved
father of the girl, Ernest Mezuwuba, who disclosed this to newsmen in Port
Harcourt, said, the suspect escaped from police custody shortly after writing
his statement at the States Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), the same
day he was paraded by the police.
According to
Mezuwuba, “after I finished writing my statement and the suspect wrote his, he
told the police that he wanted to drink water and the next thing I heard was
help, catch him, he is running away and the officer just returned and said he
has escaped.”
He expressed
dissatisfaction over the inability of the police to discharge their duty and
urged them to ensure the re-arrest of the suspected ritualist who is an
undergraduate of the University of Port Harcourt.
It would be
recalled that Ifeanyi Chukwu Maxwell Dike, a 23-year-old 200-level student of
the Faculty of Science, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, was arrested
for allegedly killing an eight-year-old girl named Victory Chikamso. Dike was
arrested for the death of little Victory in a case suspected to be ritual murder.
Dike
reportedly escaped from police custody on Sunday. The suspect had previously
been handed over to the police after being caught by a local vigilance group in
the Eliozu axis of Port Harcourt. He had reportedly removed the victim’s eyes,
vagina, finger and tongue, after defiling and murdering her.
The state
Commissioner of Police, Zaki Ahmed, who confirmed the incident, describing it
as a result of an individual negligence, said the report of Dike’s escape is
unfortunate and an embarrassment to the police.
He said the
police officer that caused the escape, John Bosco, has been arrested and
detained; assuring that they would soon track down the suspect, as the command
has deployed all its arsenal to ensure Dike does not escape justice.
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