Three young men are currently cooling
their heels in one of the dreaded cells of the
State criminal Investigation Department,
(SCID) Yaba, Panti for allegedly gang raping
a 16-year-old virgin (names withheld) in
Orile area of Lagos while on her way from
school. The suspects identified as Sunday
Simeon, 18, from Akwa Ibom state;
Adebayo Omoniyi 18, from Ondo state;
Nnaemeka Uzodinma 24, from Imo state
and Seyi (surname unknown) who is
currently on the run attacked, abducted and
gang raped the victim who is a JSS 3
student on June 23, 2015.
Vanguard learnt that the suspects attacked
the victim after one of the suspects;
Adebayo took the victim’s phone around
Arikeuyo junction while returning from
school at Orile. It was gathered that while
the victim was struggling with Adebayo, his
partners-in-crime dragged her into a tricycle
and rode her to no 15 Unity Close in Orile
Iganmu. When they got there they took off
her school uniform and raped her one after
the other starting from Adebayo.
Vanguard gathered that after successfully
raping the victim, one of the suspects
Adebayo suggested to the other gang
members that they kill the victim and throw
her corpse into the canal so that she won’t
expose them. But another member of the
gang, Seyi pleaded with them to be
cautious with Adebayo’s advice, instead
advice his colleagues to threaten the victim
rather than kill her.
Hearkening to Seyi’s advice the suspects
threatened to kill her with a cutlass if she
ever mentioned to anyone what they did to
her or that they gang raped her. Later they
collected her phone number and rode her
back to Alako area in Orile while Sunday
gave her N100 to board a commercial
vehicle home. According to a source close
to the family who spoke to Vanguard on
the condition of anonymity said: “when the
victim came back from school it was
obvious that something was wrong as she
was walking with difficulty, her uniform
torn, she was bleeding because she
sustained severe bruises all over her
vagina”.
“Her parents who saw her torn uniform
and noticed the way she walked asked what
had happened to her and she told them
how she was attacked by four men who
raped her on her way back from school.
Immediately her father took her to Orile
Divisional Police station to report the
incidence. Fortunately while she was at the
station with her father the suspects kept
calling and threatening to kill her if she told
anyone what they did to her”.
Meanwhile the victim was taken to Ifelodun
Ajeromi Government Hospital where she
received treatment after a series of test were
carried out on her which confirmed that he
has been sexually abused. Vanguard learnt
that the police advised her to lure the
suspects who were calling and threatening
her by telling them that she was coming to
see them again after school the next day.
Unknown to them that it was a trap and
that her parents had notified the police, they
bought the idea.
At the agreed time she went there with the
detectives who succeeded in arresting one
of the suspect’s Nnaemeka Uzodinma, his
arrest eventually led to the arrest of two
others. It was gathered that the victim’s
blood stained pant and the cutlass which
was used to threaten her have been
recovered from the suspects one-room
apartment in Orile. The suspects who are
currently being investigated at the State
Criminal Investigation Department, yaba,
Panti would soon be arraigned in court.
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