A group of male students of the Falomo Senior High School in
Ikoyi, Lagos state are currently on the run after they allegedly molested
female students of Ireti Grammer School on May 3rd.
According to residents of the area who confirmed the incident today, the male students had just finished their final year exams and were
leaving their school premises when they saw the female students who were also
leaving their school premises at the same time.
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| Victim of rapist high school boys |
The boys, who were excited that they were done with secondary
school, decided that the best way to express their joy was to molest the girls
in broad daylight.
The boys who were armed with scissors, cornered some of the
girls, ripped their skirt with the scissor, pushed them to the floor, pulled
their trousers mid length and then climbed on the girls. Some of their
colleagues surrounded them and cheered them on.
It took the intervention of some of the residents of the area
to stop the boys from further molesting the girls. The girls who were
frightened to go home, were escorted to the bus stop by some able bodied men in
the area.
When the school was visited by some press men, police
presence was seen. No one was allowed to enter into the school.
Dear Reader,
It is a common saying that evil prevails
when good men do nothing.
Today the 3rd of May 2017, I almost saw this evil happen.
'Almost' because I got so moved in my spirit with great indignation that I
decided to speak up.
I am in my office about 4 pm waiting for my driver to bring
my older son from school so we can get home on time to prepare the younger one
for his common entrance exams into secondary school coming up in two
weeks.
I called the driver, and he said he was around, and as I
leave my niece's office upstairs, I hear a lot of shouting and commotion
outside our office.
I then ask the receptionist what it was about and he says
it's the secondary school students who have finished their final exams tearing
their clothes. I mumble to myself that if any of them were my children I will
deal with them. As they don't earn money so how can they tear what was bought
for them.
Suffice to say I give my older son who is helping me with my
bags that speech and we head out into the car. As we come outside the noise is
overwhelming and as my son kept saying when we were later discussing what
happened, he described it as being very intense when we had a chance to discuss
the events that followed as people were running and upon my looking closer I
saw pockets of people actually students and then girls running with palpable
fear in their faces.
At this point I quickly enter my car to leave so one doesn't
meet whatever the problem was and to avoid traffic too. And as we entered the
car and I look a bit closely at a crowd of boys who have surrounded two persons
on the floor who appear to be fighting.
Their shouting overpowers any other sound and looking
closely I see the most unreal thing. It's actually a boy trying to force
himself on a girl with his trousers partly down and the boys are cheering him
on.
People are looking and some persons the security guards in
the office near us are recording it. I open my car in disbelief and shout on
the boys to break it up while shouting at my security and the second driver to
assist me. I walk towards them and as I make my way towards them I see another
group and this time they have cornered one of the the girls who fell while
running from them.
In almost a surreal way I am looking but not quickly
processing. I see her kicked down, she bravely pushes herself up and another
guy tries to clear her legs and she lunges at him and then a guy takes a pair
of scissors in his hands and with one swoop tears her skirt from the bottom and
also a part of the black spanx shorts she has on underneath.
All this happens really in a few minutes and he proceeds to
push himself into her through her back. His trousers is open too and another
one tries to do same from the front. As this is going on the crowd of boys are
wild with frenzy, cheering the two boys on, while grabbing at her hair, breasts
and she is fighting for dear life.
I am still making my way towards the first group but they
bolt when they see me coming and when I see them do so I move ahead and rush
towards the second group this time shouting at the top of my lungs at my own
office security, the office next door and thankfully mine follow me and when
they see us coming they break up and run but there more girls running
back.
I reach the girl and we gather her things together. She ties
the torn skirt around her spanx shorts like a wrapper and holds onto to
me.
I see the boys have run forwards and stopped, waiting for me
to enter my car while threatening other teenage school girls still. I have a crowd
of over 25 girls huddled together frantically telling me their various
ordeal.
I ask them to take another route back and am told if the go
back from where they are coming there is another group behind and the our
office road is a crescent so they are technically locked in.
And most of them have their skirts ripped as they claim the
boys in the various groups have scissors on them. Further questioning tells me
the best way is to go out is towards the other side but since they are too
scared to go I ask my security, some other men have come out to escort them
too, with myself as the only adult female and there begins over an hours walk
towards the obalende roundabout from off awolowo road in Ikoyi.
We meet other girls who have had their clothes ripped as the
boys fled once the boys realized I was not backing up. The boys would reach a
distance and stop to taunt the girls. We now had a crowd of over 60 girls who
needed to get safely to the bus stop and find their way home.
We ( being myself and the other men escorting the girls)
start talking about how to get hold of one of the boys so we can use him as an
example. At this point I call a friend and ask for a Mopol to be sent to me. I
describe my location.
My attention is drawn to another girl who had just been
manhandled by the fleeing boys. A woman warns the girls to beware as the boys
have spilt up and are waiting as some live in that locality.
We then break into three groups to escort the girls to their
various bus or home points. I take the two girls whom I saw personally
manhandled and begin to make careful inquiries.
Feedback shows that they go to a senior high school called
Falomo Senior High School next to Ireti grammar school that these boys go to.
Today was both schools final day after which they will come only to collect
their results from Wednesday of the following week so the boys who had already
started raping some girls last week now planned this brazen rape and
manhandling activity.
They had also stolen their phones and transport money. We
then made arrangements to transport them home. By now the mopol has come. He
walks me to obalende under bridge to put the two girls and their friends going
to Yaba into a bus.
This is not before I get the names of the boys as George and
Abiodun as the main perpetrators, they are final year students of Ireti Grammar
School SW Ikoyi. I call a friend and am told to take pictures but most of the
girls have gone but we arel able to take pictures of at least 7 girls with me
who had torn clothes in various stages of disarray.
I give my number to the only girl left with a phone and this
was because she put it into her spanx shorts as she wore two and used one to
roll her phone into it. I am amazed at this whole thing and we agree that they
should come through to my office on Wednesday of the following week but I will
go ahead and make a report to the two schools tomorrow and begin finding these
evil boys so we can use them as examples to deter other from this abominable
behavior perpetrated in broad day light.
One of the girls says she can identify them. She gives me
her number. I ask my security to ensure he receives them at 9am when we agreed
to meet. I turn and leave but I will never be the same again. The evil is
terrible. The lack of regard and the indignity.
My mind runs through and is still running through all I have
seen. I have a friend who normally stops to help distressed persons or attend
to traffic situation and I always warn him to desist and he will say someone
has to do it.
Today I am most grateful I was that someone. I had other
people join me especially a man who saw me and said madam a girl was raped last
week by this office. Am tired of this. Removed his tie and followed me. They
stayed with me till the last set of kids entered the bus and as they came so
they left when we got done.
I did not get to say thank you to them. My older son was
like mum, they must be angels or Jesus. Actually he said the man that followed
me first must be Jesus. I don't know who he was but if he ever reads this post
my heartfelt thank you to him for that large hearted action.
God is kind oh, that there are still good men but we must
speak up and as such I am following up to ensure we do something collectively
to help the boys of this school as I believe mentoring is required if this
cycle is to be broken but the ones who committed this dastardly act must be
brought to book first. I ask those in authority to look into this as I am told
it's quite prevalent.
God bless Nigeria and we all have a part in ensuring the
blessing ~
I don't know what to say
Story as narrated by Michale Matthew
Meanwhile the Lagos state police commissioner, Fatai Owoseni, says the state police command has begun investigation into the molestation.
Meanwhile the Lagos state police commissioner, Fatai Owoseni, says the state police command has begun investigation into the molestation.
He said, "I have told my men in Lagos to go and ascertain the matter. You can be sure that we would fish out all those involved"
Michale also shared that two of the boys have been caught
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Great. Our society is too laid back. Thanks strong woman.
ReplyDeleteGood job madam! .God bless you
ReplyDeleteIf you flog another man's child, they tell you that you shouldn't train their children for them. This is what it is breeding. "Spare the rod and spoil the child". Also, some people shouldn't be parents AT ALL. I think God should be selecting men and women to give sperm and ovaries.
ReplyDeleteAll this are southern Nigeria wahala where holier than thou are. People who claims to be more advanced and others are mumu. We have not started seeing this type of animalisticated misbehaviour in the North. The boys are putting back to the society what they learn from their homes and environment.
ReplyDeleteIdiot! In the North, Ur brothers always carry Daggers about, stabbing and killing at any slight provocation. MUMU!
DeleteLet call a spade a spade. We don't need to insult any region, tribes or religions. What happening is barbaric, uncultured and indiscipline amongst the school leavers. many ways to celebrate their happiness not in such inhuman treatment among themselves. Moreover, Kudos to the rescue teams,if not there quick intervention it could have generate another chaos.may God save us from all the children if this generation
ReplyDeleteI once worked in the street adjoining the two schools, it's such a pity that morals there have degenerated to such abominable level. It's a wakeup call on all parents to re-double their efforts to ensure that their children turn out to be good and upright citizens and not societal miscreants and rapists.
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