Unknown gunmen suspected to be
cultists abducted and gang-raped a
Senior Secondary School II student
(name withheld) in Katsina-Ala Local
Government Area of Benue State.
According to Punch, the gang, suspected
to have been led by one Torkula who is
said to be a notorious cultist, abducted
the 15-year-old girl, an SSII student of
College of Education Demonstration
Secondary School on Ter Katsina-Ala
Street, a stone’s throw from her house.
The girl is presently admitted at Benue
State University Teaching Hospital,
Makurdi. As at the time newsmen
visited the hospital yesterday, she was
still unconscious.
Her father, who lectures at the College
of Education, Katsina-Ala, said the
incident happened on Thursday,
January 5, 2017 at 11 am; adding that
his daughter who designed clothes went
to a nearby market to buy zips to make
a neighbour’s cloth but did not return.
“We did not see her until nightfall and
then decided to search in homes of
some of her friends and classmates, but
could not find her. Then, I laid a
complaint at the Police station. There,
they advised me to put up an
announcement on Ashiwaves Radio
located in Katsina-Ala.
“The whole family resorted to prayer as
I consulted my pastor who told me that
he saw a vision of my missing daughter
in the midst of cultists, even as he
assured me that she would be found
soon.
“Later, I got a call from a church
member saying that she saw my
daughter on a motorcycle with two men
who gagged her with rags as she
attempted to speak to her. According to
her, they were heading for the
riverside.”
The father added that he and others
proceeded to the riverside in company
of a motorcyclist.
He said that on getting there, he saw the
abductors smoking Indian hemp and
one of them approached him, asking
questions.
“A few minutes later, I saw Torkula
dragging my daughter and she looked
heavily drugged and almost
unconscious. The motorcyclist held unto
Torkula as he attempted to run away,
while the others escaped.
“My daughter managed to speak and
told me that they administered on her
four injections of an unknown
substance; and that the abductors took
her from one Ucha’s house to Moses’
home, where they stripped her naked;
and later to Torkula’s mother’s beer
parlor where she was forced to drink a
drugged beer.
“She also told me that for two days, they
only gave her drugs and no food,” the
distraught father narrated with
bitterness.
Meanwhile, a medical report from the
Nguher Clinic in Katsina-Ala-Ala where
the rape survivor was earlier admitted
before being transferred to the Benue
State Teaching Hospital, indicates that
she was induced with parenteral
substance abuse and sexual assault was
made on her.
It was also gathered that the teenage
girl’s father has relocated his entire
family to an unknown place following
threats from members of the suspect’s
family who is currently in Police
custody.
Confirming the incident, the State
Commissioner of Police, Bashir
Makama, said the suspect would be
prosecuted according to law, adding
that investigation was already on to
arrest other culprits.
