The Enugu State Police Command has discredited reports that at least 20 ladies were raped at a musical concert, which featured music star, Chinedu Okoli, popularly known as Flavour in the State.
The police said, “It is quite lamentable and disgusting for people to wallow in such imagination and feed the public with it”.
The concert, which held at the Michael Okpara Square, Enugu on Saturday, ended with news making the rounds that 20 ladies were allegedly raped.
Dismissing the reports spokesman of the Police in the State, SP Ebere Amaraizu said that neither the State command headquarters nor any of its division had received a report from any victim over the alleged rape, Daily Post reports.
Amaraizu said jobless people cooked up the story to cause terror and rubbish the good work being done by the security agents and the State Government.
The SP said “You even begin to ask yourself, those people that quoted the number of the rape victims as 20, how they did do they count? Does it mean they were following the rapists around the taking the data? Or the victims were assembled at one place and raped? Who are these victims?”
He also said people abuse the social media because someone tweeted it and it began to spread.
He said,
“There is no reported case anywhere in the Enugu State Police command. We don’t have any incident arising from that event; whoever that has any should come forward, and we will look at it.
“That event was organized by Flavour as a way of giving back to the society because he grew up here in Enugu.
“We don’t want a situation where people sit down somewhere and manufacture stories because he who asserts must also prove.
“You even begin to ask yourself, those people that quoted the number of the rape victims as 20, how they did do they count? Does it mean they were following the rapists around the taking the data? Or the victims were assembled at one place and raped? Who are these victims?
“So, people cannot just sit down and say 1000 persons have been raped whereas there is no evidence to substantiate that. People are just abusing the social media because I understand that someone just tweeted it and it began to spread,” he stated.
While noting that “the handiwork of mischief makers cannot be ruled out”, Amaraizu further stated that
“These are people who are always there to cause panic in the minds of law-abiding residents of the State, to cause terror in their mind and to rubbish the good work being done by the security agents and the State Government.
“So, as far the command is concerned, we do not have any reported case of rape arising from that event or after the event. Any person who has any claim, on the contrary, should come up with it and we will take it up from there.
“It is quite lamentable and disgusting for people to wallow in such imagination and feed the public with it.”
