Cases of Rape, Defilement Won’t Be Swept Under the Carpet, Edo CP, Otimenyin, Says
Adibe Emenyonu in Benin City
The new Commissioner of Police, Edo State, Betty Otimenyin has said under her leadership, issues relating to rape and defilement would not be swept under the carpet and promised to ensure that the department of the police handling such cases give justice to all victims.
She also called on the people of the state to cooperate with the Police Force to check cases of violent crimes like kidnapping, farmers herders’ clashes, cultism and others by making information available to the police all the time.
She said with the new law on cultism and kidnapping in the state, withholding information from the police could be counter-productive.
Otimeyin stated this at the Edo State Council Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) when she paid a courtesy call on the union and interaction with journalists.
According to the CP, who was received by the leadership of the Union led by the chairman, Festus Alenkhe, “If the person is not just being animalistic, what will attract a child to an adult?
“You have a child at home, you have a baby at home, what are you seeing, what will somebody be seeing in a child if he is not having psychiatric issues?
“What amazes me is that some people come as a body and they will be protecting not the victims but the violators and one begins to imagine where they once violators themselves? Is that why they are protecting their kind?
“Because a sane human being will not protect a violator but rather the victim. Will such persons be happy if their child is violated in that manner?
“Or are they saying that they can allow their own daughters to be defiled, or you allow your own wife to be raped? We will continue to work on this because I have sympathy for victims.”
On other violent crimes, she said, “We want to live in an environment that will make everybody safe. That is why we say wherever you are, when you see something, say something and that means give us information and with information, we will be able to work well.”
