A teacher (name withheld) of a
Catholic Secondary School in Lagos has narrated before an Ikeja Sexual Offences
and Domestic Violence Court how a suspected armed robber raped her in her home
using a polythene bag as protection.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
reports that the teacher made the revelation on Tuesday while giving evidence
during the trial of two men in their 20’s- Babatunde Oluwaleke and Daniel Ojo –
over the alleged rape and armed robbery.
While being led in evidence by
Akin George, the lead prosecuting counsel for the state, the teacher gave a
harrowing account of how she was raped in her home by Mr Oluwaleke on March 6,
2018.
She told the court that between 2
a.m. and 3 a.m. while asleep in her bedroom, she was awoken by some noise and
she saw two males, a tall one (Ojo) and a short one (Oluwaleke) both dark in
complexion, ordering her to get up.
She said: “I told them I had no
money and the first defendant (Oluwaleke) said I must produce money or he will
kill me. I was pleading and the second defendant (Ojo) told him that they
should go because that is not what they came for.
“I was tying a wrapper and the
first defendant asked me to lie on the bed, I was pleading and he pushed me
back on the bed, I begged that he should not rape me that I don’t have money
but he took my Automated Teller Machine (ATM) card, mobile phones and all that
I have.
“He brought out a knife, placed
the tip on my stomach and threatened to stab me if I did not cooperate. When he
opened my wrapper, he saw I was menstruating and I didn’t know from where he
produced a polybag.
“He tied the polybag on his penis
and inserted his penis into my vagina. I was pleading that I could be his
sister but he ignored me, asking me to shut up. Much later, he removed the
polybag and raped me using nothing.
“When the first defendant was
done, the second defendant was telling him that was not what they came for and
that they needed to go.”
She said after they left,
terrified, she prayed, hoping that the other members of her household were
unharmed.
The teacher said when she went to
check on members of her family, she realised that they had all slept through
her ordeal.
“My mother and her friend were
still sleeping in the sitting room. Things were scattered and the contents of
their handbags were emptied on the floor. I woke them up and told them what
happened.
“We stay in a one-storey
building, we went downstairs where my younger brother stays and we noticed the
armed robbers used a rope to tie the door of the mosquito net which is attached
to a spring so that it does not make noise.
“My younger brother was also
still asleep with his friend, we woke them up and I told them what happened and
we took an inventory of all the property that was stolen,” she said.
The teacher said members of her
family immediately reported the crime to the authorities and she was taken to
the hospital that morning for medical examination and counselling.
She said on that day, she was
also taken to the Afonka Police Station, Alimosho, Lagos, where four recently
apprehended armed robbery suspects were shown to her and she was asked if any
of the suspects had raped and robbed her.
“Immediately I saw the first
defendant, I recognised him, even with my eyes closed, I can identify him.
“I identified him to the police,
wrote a statement and went home and the case was transferred to the Special
Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).
“My lord, I want fair justice to
be served in this case,” she said.
Following her testimony, Mr O
Egbo, the counsel to the defendants requested for an adjournment in order to
effectively cross-examine the teacher.
Obliging his request, Justice
Abiola Soladoye adjourned the case until September 30 for cross-examination of
the witness. (NAN)
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This made me cry, the heart of some men is totally wicked oo..wow
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