Unknown gunmen on Tuesday night, attacked Corpers lodge, located along Udo Ekong Ekwere Street, off Information Drive, in Uyo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, and raped a female.
It was gathered that the gunmen stormed the lodge by 1a.m on a tricycle, took away valuables including laptops, cell phones and cash.
Some of the corps members who spoke with newsmen yesterday lamented that nobody came to their rescue during the attack despite their cries for help.
An anonymous female corper, who narrated the incident to the newsmen amidst tears, said her phones, laptop and cash were forcefully taken away from her, after the hoodlums gained entrance into her room from the back door.
Going further she added: “you know, at that period of the night, most of us females used to sleep naked. So, the suddenness of the attack caught us unprepared.
“They beamed the torch through the windows and threatened to shoot if the door was not quickly opened,” she lamented.
Mr. Nsikak Ibanga, a night guard at the State Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, which is located opposite the corpers lodge, said: “I raised the alarm by hitting the supporting pillars holding the reconstructed NUJ auditorium.
“The sound reverberated across the whole area, but there was no response.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Odiko MacDon, when contacted said he was yet to be fully briefed on the incident.
