Tag: rape

Four men were yesterday paraded in Lagos by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) for allegedly raping two daughters in Lagos of their colleague.

NSCDC Lagos Commandant, Gabriel Abafi gave the abused sisters’ ages five and three.

Abafi, who paraded the suspects at the command’s office in Alausa, Ikeja, said: “We received a distress call around 9.15pm on Sunday that some men sexually abused toddlers between ages 3 and 5. During our investigation, the girls themselves pointed at the suspects. What do they know? Why were they harassed by these men?

“The government should come to our aid so cases like this do not escalate. We appreciate the human rights activist who informed us about this incident. The public also needs to sensitise us. If some parents are busy to take care of their children, they should take them to crèche. There are bruises on their private parts. They have been taken to Lagos State University Teaching hospital (LASUTH) for medical checkup but the results are not yet out. We will not rest until justice is done.”

The suspects are Deji Adenekan, 39; Taiye Ojo, 32; Peter Arabu, 33 and John Mahason, 24.

The victims’ father, Ayodele Ekundayo, a labourer, said he became aware of the incident five days ago when his second child kept shouting pepper.

He said his children had been in his custody since the second child was eight months old.

He said: “When I didn’t answer her, she removed her pants in tears and spread her legs for breeze to blow her private parts. That was when I became curious. I called her elder sister, who will clock five in two months what has been happening whenever I wasn’t around, then she pointed at Peter. I met them few months ago where they offloaded cement. Whenever we wanted to travel to deliver cement in other states, these colleagues advised me to leave my children behind since I was given a room. If I didn’t take them along, I leave them with the security guard.

“My daughter told me that whenever I was behind the trailer offloading cement, the driver (Adenekan) was always fingering them. She also said after he does, Ojo enters the trailer and does the same. She also said that whenever I left them with the security guard (Mahason), he puts on the company’s generator, gives them a phone to watch a blue film and sleeps with them. She said Arabu fingered her and slept with her. When I asked my colleagues, they didn’t say anything. When Arabu came, he threatened to kill me if I said anything about it. . For two days, he threatened me and that was how people heard.”

Adenekan, a driver, who’s married and has three children, said he didn’t do anything.

He said: “I met the children through their father. Their father brought them to our yard. He told us that their mother left them and he didn’t have a place to keep them. It was Ojo that brought their father to our yard. I don’t know him before. I didn’t touch her. I was even at home on the day the father came to meet us in our yard. They should look for Segun that was the first name the girl mentioned. I will never help anyone again.”

Ojo, 32, a native of Ondo State, said he only assisted their father, adding: “He said since his wife left him, he has been single-handedly taking care of them. He called me on Friday, saying some people did something to his children. I only assisted him; I don’t know anything about it. I also have my own child.”

Mahason, a security guard at Kazmus Nigeria Enterprises, said the father usually left them severally whenever he went to work.

He said: “There is no relationship between me and their father. He only came and said he had no place to stay.”

Arabu also said he knew nothing about it, adding that the victims’ father was his best friend and he couldn’t have done such to his daughters.

THE four-year-old girl allegedly raped by her school bus driver has stopped attending the school following her bitter experience.

She has resumed in a new school, following her insistence not to attend her old school, her grandmother, Mrs T. Ajose, told The Nation yesterday.

“My daughter resumed in her new school last week,” she said.

Mrs. Ajose, a businesswoman, claimed the suspect, Yemi Adesina, committed the act within the school premises and has been detained at the Panti Police Station in Adekunle, Yaba, Lagos.

She said she knew about the incident when she went to fetch her granddaughter after school.

Ajose, who said she found it hard to believe that her granddaughter had been raped, rushed the girl to a hospital, where her fear was confirmed.

“The following day, when I got to the school, I shouted on top of my voice. Though my daughter has been attending the school since she was 18 months old, the teachers pretended as if they didn’t know her. Some residents and passers-by who heard my cry intervened and, in the process, destroyed some of the school’s property out of anger after listening to my story.”

Mrs. Ajose said she had been going to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) since the school wrote a petition that those who vandalised its property caused the death of one of its teachers, Mrs. Folashade Ademosu.

She said: “We have been coming to SARS for the past one week and they haven’t attended to us. Two days ago, a personal assistant to the Commissioner of Police said until the late teacher’s family comes to SARS, we will not be attended to.

“I am tired of coming here. We are always in the sun; at times when it rains, we are always here. All that is happening has really affected my business because I have been locking my shop for the past two weeks. Will my daughter’s case just end like that? I just don’t know. No one has come to me, not even the school management or the suspect’s family,” she said.

Mrs. Ajose said they were asked to come to SARS on October 12.

When The Nation visited the late teacher’s Abesan Estate home, her widower, Alhaji Ademosu, described her death as unfortunate.

He said his late wife was the victim’s class teacher, adding that she wasn’t aware of the incident until some people went to vandalise their school.

“She told me that when the residents entered, they shouted ‘that is the teacher!’ That is the teacher and it was when she tried to escape that she broke her leg. I even heard she locked herself inside the toilet for safety.

“Instead of the school authorities to take her to the hospital, they took her and the school bus driver to Alagolo Police Station. A family friend pleaded she should be taken to a hospital. She complained of her back and leg but after the bone setters fixed her leg, she managed to walk.”

Ademosu said it was when she was cooking on Sallah day that she slumped.

He said: “It is painful. Before she died, she kept asking me to hold her hands. She complained of her stomach. She was still in shock over the incident that happened in the school. Ahhh! I miss her. She bought so many things for Sallah but she couldn’t use any of them. I am not ready for any court case. I can’t go through the stress.”

Police spokesman Joe Offor, a Deputy Superintendent (DSP), who promised to speak on the matter, did not do so at the time of this report.