The reason given by a suspected rapist who is idenfied as Wasiu Bankole that made him to rape a woman as old to be his grandma (name withheld) in the dead hour of the night was unimaginable.
According to the statement SOJ WORLDWIDE ONLINE NEWS gathered the assailant, Bankole in a chat with our correspondent admitted to being drunk but denied raping the woman.
“I swear, I didn’t have sex with the woman,” he declared.
Asked how his belongings got into the woman’s apartment, he said he had no idea.
He stated, “It was some vigilantes who beat me with sticks. I am a truck driver. The only thing that is not clear to me is how my clothes got into her room. It appears someone wanted to frame me up. I was drunk but I didn’t have sex with her. I knew the woman through my landlady. She normally visits my landlady.”
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An eyewitness simply known as Oluwasegun explained that he caught Bankole molesting the old woman.
He said, “Around 11pm, the woman’s neighbour came to call me and some youths that she (the victim) was in distress. When we got there, we met the man (Bankole) on top of the woman. I used a stick to hit him on the back and he fled. The mark of the stick is on his back.”
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The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement in Abeokuta. According to the victim, while she was sleeping in her house on June 2 at Abule Lemode area of Ijoko at about 8:00 p.m., the suspect suddenly broke into her room, held her down and forcefully had carnal knowledge of her against her consent.
The victim stated further that it was one of her neighbours who heard her screaming that came to her rescue by using a stick to hit the suspect at his back consequence upon which he jumped off her and ran away leaving his clothes, shoe and torchlight inside her room.
Upon the report, the Divisional Police Officer, Agbado division, Kuranga Yero, dispatched his detectives to look for the suspect and bring him to justice. The detectives succeeded in getting him arrested 24 hours after and brought him to the station.
In recent days, there has been a wave of protests against rape in the country following the gruesome murder of a 100-level student at the University of Benin, Uwaila Omozuwa, after she was raped in a church.
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Less than a week after Omozuwa’s plight, another student undergoing a National Diploma programme in Science Laboratory Technology at the Federal College of Animal and Production Technology, Moore Plantation, Apata, Ibadan, Oyo State, Barakat Bello, was raped and hacked to death by some robbers.
Also, three armed men allegedly gang-raped a 17-year-old hawker at the Oja-Oba Market, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State on Monday.
www.sojworldnews.com (c) June 8, 2020
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