Crime
Police confirm another woman rescued from strangulation from Serial killer in a hotel in Rumuokoro last night
…PPRO DSP Omoni revealed that suspected Serial killer arrested
… Female victim rushed to hospital unconscious
…Scores of Women from over 45 women groups in peaceful protest to Governor Wike
Another woman narrowly escaped being strangulated by suspected serial killer in a hotel in Rumuokoro in Obio-Akpor local government area of Rivers State last night, Tuesday September 17, just as scores of Women made up of over 45 women groups staged a peaceful protest against serial killings in Rivers State.
The Spokesman of the Rivers Police Command, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, who announced the arrest during an early morning programme of Nigerian info FM, Port Harcourt, said the young woman who was rescued unconscious has been admitted in hospital.
Omoni said the female victim managed to raise alarm as she was being strangulated by the suspected Serial killer before help came and suspect was overpowered and handed over to the Police and undergoing interrogation.
The latest arrest brings to three the number of suspects arrested so far when the serial killings began less than two months ago.
According to the Police, Eight Women have so far been killed in a manner suspected to be for rituals by yet to be identified cult group on the loose in State.
Photos showing Women in peaceful protest against Serial killings of Women in Hotels in the State to Government House, Port Harcourt
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Elsewhere in the Capital City of Port Harcourt, scores of Women groups Coordinated by Rotary Club International South South who clad in black attire and drawn from the International Federation of Women Lawyers, Nigeria Association of Women Journalists, Medical Women Association of Nigeria, amongst others first converged at the Secretariat the Rivers Chapter of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, staged a protest to Governor Nyesom Wike, asking for the stoppage of Serial killings of women in hotels in the state.
Mrs. Rita Marley Nkem Idonor, one of the organisers and Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, a former Commissioner for Information and Communications who spoke at the gate of Government House Port Harcourt said they were worried that innocent women, future mothers, Sisters were helplessly being killed with serial killers on the loose.
They said they were in Government House gate to submit their petition to Governor Nyesom Wike, who is the Chief Security Officer of the state to do something and stop the killings in State.
They also demanded an apology from the state Police Command for tagging the victims as mere Prostitutes as if that qualifies them to be killed by suspected Serial Killers unchallenged and arrested by the Police.
Receiving the protesters, Dr. Tammy Wenike Danagogo, the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, on behalf of Governor Wike said the Governor is deeply concerned about the unfortunate incidents.
He said none of those women deserved to die in the manner they are being killed.
The SSG assured that the State Government, through the security agencies, will redouble its efforts to stop the killings.
“We have held several security council meetings with heads of security agencies in the state all the things you talked about like the Close Circuit Television, CCTV, Cameras, proper documentations of guests who patronise hotels have all been extensively been discussed and action would be taken”
CP Mustapha Dandaura for the Rivers State Police Command had said that 8 female victims have so far been killed’.
He advised women and mothers to counsel their daughters, Sisters and mothers to stay away from the prostitution trade, and warned them to stay away from the men or guests that demand “short time” sexual pleasures in hotels or motels.
CP Dandaura declared that from preliminary investigations, the manner of killings suggest that ritualists and Cultists and in no distant time, the Serial Killers will be nabbed to face the law.
