Scores
of angry youths from the Sagbama town of Sagbama Local Government Area
of Bayelsa State yesterday booed a former chairman, Hon.Perez Peretu,
over his alleged attempt to rape a 13 -year old girl in his country home
in the state.While the Bayelsa State police command spokesperson, Mr.Alex Akhigbe, insisted that the allegation of attempted rape was admitted by the victim against the former local government council boss, the angry youths of the council area insisted that it was a case of rape and called for an independent investigation into the incident.
The angry youths,had in a telephone interview, claimed that the accused former local government council chairman, Hon. Perez Peretu, was allegedly caught pants down in his home having canal knowledge of the girl identified as his wife’s junior sister.
While many of the suspects loyalists claim the alleged rape was an attempt by some persons to rubbish his achievement as past council chairman, others insisted that the charge of rape against the chairman was true and accused the police of trying to subvert justice after alleged financial inducement.
But the spokesman of the Bayelsa Police Command, Mr. Alex Akhigbe admitted that the police authorities are aware of the development, there was no official complaint of rape or attempted rape against the former council boss.
Akhigbe said “when the police got wind of the development, we invited the former local government boss and discovered that the case of Rape against him was unsubstantiated and unfounded. We invited the alleged victim and she denied any canal knowledge of her by the chairman and said the chairman attempted it. Though the attempted rape is a crime, there was not official report against him.”
