Local vigilante rescues teenager from rapists in Suleja

A 15-year-old girl was yes­terday rescued from rapists by a lo­cal vigilante group attached to Jubilee Road, Suleja while re­turning from church service at about 10pm.

According to the victim, a student in one of the second­ary schools in Suleja identified as Irene Omoh, the two rap­ists accosted her with knives to cooper­ate with them and dragged her to an un­completed building within the location they met her.

Unknown to the rapists, two vigilan­tes simply identified as Haruna and Abel where within the area. When they saw the girl being dragged to the uncompleted building, they hur­riedly call other members on phone to come and join them to catch the rapists.

When caught, they had already torn the girl’s dress into shreds. The vigilan­tes arrested him and took him to their of­fice.

Items recovered from them are dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp, screw driver and knives.

As at the time of filing this report, the vigilante said they will be handed over to the police for ac­tion.