{"id":25853,"date":"2024-04-06T14:03:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T14:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nscdc-nabs-3-minors-over-alleged-attempted-rape-in-ebonyi\/"},"modified":"2024-04-06T14:03:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T14:03:43","slug":"nscdc-nabs-3-minors-over-alleged-attempted-rape-in-ebonyi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nscdc-nabs-3-minors-over-alleged-attempted-rape-in-ebonyi\/","title":{"rendered":"NSCDC nabs 3 minors over alleged attempted rape in Ebonyi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Ebonyi State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has arrested three minors for alleged attempt to rape another minor.<\/p>\n<p>The State Commandant of the Corps, Elijah Willie, who revealed this to newsmen on Saturday in Abakaliki, said two of the suspects are aged 15 and 13.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the command was on the heels of a third suspect, currently on the run, adding that the incident occurred at Ishielu Local Government Area of the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will be transferred to relevant juvenile authorities for necessary rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been increasing cases of minors engaged in such acts and it reflects the moral decadence in the society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI urge relevant stakeholders to take drastic actions to check the trend for the sake of our youths,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>One of the minors, however, denied involvement in the act, saying he only reprimanded the victim for abusing him.<\/p>\n<p>In another development, the NSCDC commandant also said they had arrested two suspects for alleged vandalism of electricity cables at the Ebonyi International Shopping Mall.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the suspects, aged 21 and 22, hail from Amasiri in Afikpo North Local Government Area of the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCases of vandalism are rampant in Ebonyi and we urge relevant stakeholders to sensitise the people, especially youths, to stop engaging in such acts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NSCDC is seriously warning vandals to repent or face the full wrath of the command,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the suspects would be prosecuted after the completion of investigation.<\/p>\n<p>NSCDC nabs 3 minors over alleged attempted rape in Ebonyi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ebonyi State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has arrested three minors for alleged attempt&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[651,384,15,1666],"tags":[654,387,180,1670],"class_list":["post-25853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ebonyi","category-metro","category-news","category-nscdc","tag-ebonyi","tag-metro","tag-news","tag-nscdc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}