FCT police react to viral video of lady claiming police officer attempted to rape her
The FCT police command says it has begun an investigation into an allegation by a lady, Miss Ugwoegbu Ugomwa, that one of its officers, DSP Jude Ifeanyi, attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) of the FCT Police Command, attempted to rape her in his office.
The incident occurred between 11 am and 12 pm on Friday when Ifeanyi allegedly took the victim out alongside his friends on Friday.
She said: “A senior police officer, SP Jude Ifeanyi, who is my supposed friend, took me out with his friends yesterday. On our way home because he was driving me in his car, he drove into a compound I couldn’t recognise and asked me to follow him up to his office, that he wanted to use the toilet.
“I followed him up, only then I realised it was an FCT Command. He wanted to have sex with me in the office, I told him I could not do such there. I was walking out on him when he drew me back and started hitting me and he pushed me off the staircase. When he thought I was dead, he ran away leaving me on the floor.
“According to officers at the counter, when they asked him about the lady he went up with, he said I was coming. He left his car and disappeared until about 10 minutes later when I regained consciousness, I went down and told them what happened.
“They started calling him to report to the office. I have serious injuries all over my body. This happened at about 11am to 12pm this morning (Friday morning). The police on duty took me to Asokoro District Hospital but unfortunately, all their beds were occupied. They gave me injections. There was no x-ray person around. Please help me.”
In a statement released, the FCT police command spokesperson, DSP Josephine Adeh, said: “However, ongoing investigation suggests that both parties are most likely in some sort of erotic relationship and had gone out to drink and were highly spirited that evening.
The alleged Officer had promised to drop Miss Ugwoegbu off when he branched into the office to ease himself as the video insinuated. An argument ensued between both parties on the stairways resulting in physical struggles hence the rash pronouncements that were regrettably too late to be retracted.”
Adeh stated that while an internal investigation for necessary disciplinary actions has been instituted against the erring Officer, it is important to state that Ugomwa was at the Command’s SCID earlier that day, to report a case of Blackmail, Threat, Defamation of character and sexual Harassment and sundry offenses against another person and had lauded the investigation approach of the Officers.
Adeh stated that it is however disappointing to have seen the command dragged into their undefined private episode.
The FCT police spokesperson promised that due diligence would be carried out without any restraint in ensuring that justice is served in both instances.
