The family of Anwulika Nathan (an 11year old girl), a house
help, who was allegedly rape to death in the house of her guardian, one of the
Commissioners in the Abia State Oil Producing Areas Development Commissions
(ASOPADEC) has been reportedly causing ripples in the community.
It was gathered
that the commissioner after raping the girl to coma rushed her to New Era
Hospital, along Niger road and some distance from Amuzukwu Primary and
Secondary Schools were she later died.
The source who
confirmed that the police were already investigating the matter also accused
the police of trying to sweep the matter under the carpet owing the “powerful”
nature of the commissioner in the state.
According to the
source “Sometimes last week, we got a phone that Anurika Nathan, 11year old
from Owu Ahia Afor, who is living with one of the ASOPADEC Commissioners was
raped to death.
“When we got to
Umuahia, they were at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Umuahia. On reaching
there, we saw her corpse in an ambulance covered with a T-Shirt with the
inscription. One side of her body was open and we saw a lot of bruises on her
knees, blood was coming out from her mouth and even from her private part.
“After we waited
for about an hour at the hospital, the young man (Commissioner) arrived with
his official car and with the father of the deceased. They came in with a
letter from New Era hospital, Umuahia stating the doctor’s report.
“After a while,
the Commissioner attempted to leave, but the woman IPO refused him going,
insisting he must follow her to the police station (CPS, Umuahia). The man
insisted he was going nowhere as he brandished an identity card showing the
police woman that he is a Hon. Commissioner but the police woman stood her
ground that he must go to the police station with her.
“It was at that
point that so many people gathered and with the assistance of the crowd, he was
taken to the police station by ‘keke’ after his driver refused to drive the car
further.
“Before they left
for the police station, there was a mellow-drama at the hospital premises when
the said Commissioner could not pay the ambulance driver for the services he
rendered, but for the driver’s threat to dump the girl’s corpse into his own
official car he (commissioner) was forced to pay the ambulance man”.
Continuing, the
source added, “Before this time, the wife of the commissioner who we understand
works in the same office with the father of the Anwulika was crying and when
asked why she was crying, she said that prior to that incident, the girl
went to school and came back from school with bruises and before they could
take her to the hospital, she died in the process, adding that “from the
hospital, we went to the police station and they tried to bail him
(commissioner) out that day, but it was not possible. Unfortunately, the girl
was somehow related to prominent man in Abia government and I believe if not
for this, from the way things had been going, the man could have been off the
hook.
“But of the man’s
(commissioner) position in government, we (relations and families of the
victim) are afraid that even the police would compromise dropping the matter.
“We were able to
come to the conclusion that the commissioner raped our sister to death because
from the autopsy conducted, the cause of death was established to be rape.
“Anwulika was
living with the commissioner, she was his housemaid and he took her in January
this year. It is not clear whether the girl died in the man’s house or at the
hospital, but all we know is that the man took her to New Era hospital in his
car but later brought her down to FMC in an ambulance and at FMC medics there
tried to ascertain the cause of the death of the girl, considering the bruises
she had her knees and blood that was gushing from her mouth and private part.
“What we are
calling for is for justice to prevail. The autopsy had been done at FMC which
was confirmed at the CPS that the girl died as a result of rape.”
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