A hoodlum, identified simply as Yemi, aka Aleeba, has been arrested for allegedly abducting and raping a female undergraduate of the Federal Polytechnic Ede, Osun State.According to sources in the town, Yemi, who had been notorious for committing a series of crimes in the area, abducted the undergraduate along Bode Road in Ede on Sunday evening.He, thereafter, took the victim to a secluded place where he reportedly had carnal knowledge of her.While engaging in the act, it was learnt that the victim’s outcry for help caught the attention of people who rushed to rescue the undergraduate from Yemi’s grip.

Following a report at the police station, Yemi was arrested and immediately transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department at the command headquarters in the Osogbo area of the state.

Contacted on Tuesday, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Yemisi Opalola, said, “According to the victim, the suspect committed the act alone. He has been arrested and investigation has commenced into the crime.”

Meanwhile, the Management of Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun state, has appealed to students to be peaceful and allow justice to take a course in the alleged rape of the female student.

The action of the student drew the attention of management of the polytechnic who promised to investigate and follow it up to a conclusion.

The spokesperson of the polytechnic, Sola Lawal, in a statement, Tuesday, promised that the management will pursue the matter to a logical conclusion.

He said: “We want to emphatically state that this act of lawlessness is not only barbaric but a bestial act that must be condemned in all its totality with attendant prosecution of the culprit.

The management of the Federal Polytechnic, Ede, in her avowed determination to protect the interest of the students will pursue this case to a logical conclusion and bring the perpetrator of this dastardly act to book, no matter how highly placed he is.”