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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
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.