The Cross River State Police Command on Thursday paraded a retired Deputy Superintendent of Police, Mr. Christopher Archibong, 55, for defiling a nine-year-old girl (name withheld).
Parading Archibong alongside 62 other criminal suspects at the command’s headquarter in Calabar, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hafiz Inuwa, said the retired traffic warden committed the crime on May 31, 2017, in Calabar.
Inuwa explained that the suspect lured the victim into his uncompleted building, adding that Archibong threatened to kill the little girl when she initially resisted him.
He said, “On May 31, 2017, one traffic warden officer who retired as a DSP, Mr. Christopher Archibong, 55, defiled a nine-year-old girl. On June 5, 2017, when she could no longer bear it, she informed her mother of the incident and the case was reported to the police on June 7, 2017. Upon his arrest, the suspect confessed to the crime and he will be charged to court soon.”
However in an interview with journalists, Archibong denied the matter, saying the whole incident was a setup.
He said, “I was set up by my close neighbours who got jealous of me after I bought a piece of land to build my house. I retired as a DSP in February this year, I am a law abiding citizen of Nigeria. I did not rape the girl as it is said,” he said.
When asked why he confessed to committing the crime in his statement, Archibong simply said, “I was under pressure, so, I had to admit.”
