A 21-year-old girl was abducted and raped on Monday, august 15, along the Obiri-Kwerre Airport Road in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State.
She spoke to newsmen in Port Harcourt, the state capital, the victim (name withheld) said she boarded a taxi while heading to Rukpokwu which is near Port Harcourt.
She said it was while in transit that the driver brought out a knife to threaten her.
She narrated; “He just came and said, ‘Where are you going?’ I said I was going to Rukpokwu (near Port Harcourt). He said okay, and asked me to enter. So, he drove down and wound up the glass. He showed me a knife and a gun and asked me to keep quiet. He said he had killed a woman already because the woman shouted.He was like he was going to kill me, that the only way he was going to save me was to sleep with me. So, when we got to a lonely and dark place, he stopped and slept with me. Then, just a few meters from that place, he stopped the car and said I should go out.”
