At least two suspects have been arrested by operatives of the Nasarawa State Police Command for assaulting a 20-year-old student of the Federal University of Lafia, Blessing Mathias.
A lecturer, Fred Ayokhai, was seen in a viral video ripping off the singlet of Mathias with a scissors.
Although details were still sketchy as of when this report was filed, social media discourse said the male figure in the footage lectures in FULAFIA’s Department of History and International Studies.
It was said that the victim had beaten up the lecturer’s 18-year-old daughter named Emmanuella over a male lover.
The lecturer, it is gathered, then led his daughter’s siblings to assault the victim in retaliation.
In a latest development, the Nasarawa State Police Command via a tweet stated that two of the suspects involved in the said assault have been detained.
The police command said efforts are ongoing to arrest some others who might be connected to the case.
“… sequel to the viral tweet of assault on a female teenager in Lafia, Nasarawa state, the Command swiftly commenced an investigation into the case.
It is gratifying to state that, two suspects have been arrested in connection with the case while the vehicle used in conveying the victim to an undisclosed location where she was assaulted has been recovered.
Effort is ongoing to arrest the remaining suspects still at-large” the command tweeted.
