Monarch jailed for raping teenage school girls

                                                
An Osun State High Court, Ilesa Division, yesterday sentenced a septuagenarian, who is also a traditional ruler in Ijesha land, to seven years in prison for raping two secondary schoolgirls.

The monarch, Loja Araromi Otokobo, Oba Moses Adeniyi, sexually assaulted the 13 and 14 years’ old girls when he offered them a ride from their school, St. Margaret Girls School, Ilesha, on the pretence that he would take them to their houses.

One of the girls was said to have lived in the same area with the traditional ruler in the past, which made them trust him. But the monarch drove them to his hotel, Prince Way Hotel, where he assaulted them sexually.

After sleeping with them, Adeniyi cleaned their private parts with a white handkerchief and warned them not to tell anybody. He also warned that if they told anyone, they would die mysteriously. Scared of the threat, the girls were unable to tell anyone for a few weeks.

But when they summoned enough courage, the girls were said to have confided in one their schoolmates who alerted one of the victims’ parents who in turn reported the case to the school authorities.

Worried by the development, the school authorities dragged Adeniyi to court. On March 28, 2011, the monarch was arraigned on a two-count charge bordering on rape and indecent assault.

The court established that the traditional ruler’s actions were contrary to sections 358 and 360 of the Criminal Code Cap 34, Vol. 11, Laws of Osun State.

In her ruling, Justice Kudirat Akano held that the prosecution team from the Ministry of Justice, comprising Tijani Adekilekun and Folashade Adekomi, proved the case beyond reasonable doubt. Akano therefore passed a guilty verdict against Adeniyi and sentenced him to seven years in prison.



Source: New Telegraph

“He removed my gown and my pants and raped me." 12-year-old Pupil narrates her ordeal.

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 30-year-old scrap collector, Nurudeen Owolabi, for allegedly raping a 12-year-old pupil, Ngozi (pseudonym) in the Bariga area of the state. According to Punch Metro learnt that Owolabi lived in the same neighbourhood with the parents of the victim. He was said to have tricked her into his apartment on Alhaji Yinu Street, Bariga, on Thursday and raped her, giving her N200 and telling her not to disclose the incident to anybody.

However, the victim’s mother was said to have noticed a whitish substance on her private parts and after much prodding, Ngozi opened up on the incident. A police source said the case was immediately reported to the police, leading to the arrest of the Ilorin, Kwara State indigene.

The source said, “The girl’s mother was away that Thursday; her grandmother sent her on an errand and the suspect tricked her into his room, where he raped her.

“When the girl’s mother returned, she noticed that Ngozi’s pants were wet and she became suspicious. She asked her what happened to her, and she said it was Owolabi that raped her.”

The source said the suspect was arrested and taken to the Bariga Police Station. The case was transferred to the Gender Office, Lagos State Police Command Headquarters, Ikeja. The victim was also taken to the Mirabel Centre at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, where a series of tests were conducted on her. The results reportedly showed that her hymen had been broken.

Ngozi, who is in primary 5, said, “I went to buy rice and I passed through Brother Nuru’s (Owolabi) house. He called me and dragged me inside his room.

“He removed my gown and my pants and raped me. He begged me not to tell anybody. I did not tell my mother because I was afraid she would beat me.”

The suspect told PUNCH Metro he was formerly dating the victim’s sister before he got another girlfriend. He added that since his separation from Ngozi’s sister, she had drawn close to him and he always gave her money. He said he was tempted to sleep with her because his new girlfriend had not visited him for a month.

 He said, “I had a girlfriend on my street, who is about 21 years old, and anytime she came to my apartment, I would sleep with her and pay her N500. But for about a month, she didn’t come.

“I saw her (the victim) passing by that Thursday and I called her to come in. I had sex with her. I then gave her N200.

“Later, her mother barged into my house on Saturday and started crying that I wanted to destroy her daughter’s life. It wasn’t my fault; the devil made me do it.”

The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, warned paedophiles to change their ways.

She said, “We want to appeal to parents of victims to speak up and report to the nearest police station. They must also keep watchful eyes on their children to protect them from sexual abuse. The Lagos State Police Command will not spare rapists.”

PHOTO: 60 yr old woman arrested for buying 5 babies for N5million

                                         

Asabi Adebayo, a 60-year-old woman, has been arrested by the  Oyo state police command for allegedly buying five babies for N5million from Port-Harcourt, Rivers state. According to Nigerian Tribune, she claimed to have given birth to in a fertility clinic, after paying N1million for each child, adding that the five children were born from two pregnancies as twins and triplets and were aged between two and one. The ages of the babies, (two boys and three girls) range from two years, eight months, seven months, six months and four months.

Leye Oyebade, the Commissioner of Police in the state, said she was suspected to be part of a baby sale syndicate who sell children to people residing abroad. The commissioner of police who paraded the suspect and the babies yesterday at the Eleyele Police Headquarters, said the woman would have escaped if not for the patriotic behavior of the officials of the orphanage, who reported the matter at the Iyaganku Police Station. Oyebade speaking on how the woman was apprehended, said that Iyaganku division of the command received a report from the proprietress of an orphanage in Ibadan on April 14, 2016, that the 60-year-old requested her to assist in getting a police report to fly her five children abroad.

The suspect, who said she hailed from Lagos State, is also a British citizen. Asabi, who was disturbed about her arrest, narrated how she got the children that led to her arrest. According to her: “I had been looking for fruits of the womb for many years until I reached menopause. Over two years ago, someone introduced me to a woman at Ikorodu, Lagos State, who could facilitate pregnancy through herbal concoction, so I and other women went there and were given the concoction.”  “We took the concoctions for nine to 10 months before we delivered. For delivery, we were taken to Port Harcourt.

I delivered twins from the first pregnancy over two years ago. I got pregnant the second time and had triplets about a year ago. I paid N1million for the treatment on each of the children. In total, I paid N5million. I breast-fed my children for three months before weaning them as babies. ”  On why she had to pay N1million on each child since multiple births could come from any pregnancy, the suspect said that the woman who gave her treatment told her ahead of delivery that she would pay according to the number of babies from each delivery.

She insisted that she did not buy the babies, contrary to her initial statement at the police station in which she was reported to have confessed paying N5million to get the five children. She said that she took the police to the place where she delivered the babies in Port Harcourt but the operators of the fertility clinic, a couple, were nowhere to be found.

The babies have been taken to the Ministry of Women Affairs, Child Welfare while the suspect is assisting the police in their investigation. Meanwhile, a woman identified as Mrs Abigail Brown, allegedly collaborated with her husband’s former driver, to kidnap her two children in order to get her husband to pay ransom for their release. Brown who initially denied kidnapping her own children, admitted that she committed the crime out of frustration since her husband had abandoned her and their children to suffer. Brown said she considered the kidnapping as the only avenue to extort money from her husband.



Source: Naij.com

Female lawmaker beaten at National Assembly

                             
                                

A female lawmaker, Hon. Onyemeachi Mprakpor was allegedly assaulted by security operatives attached to the convoy of the comptroller-general of prisons, Dr. Peter Ezenwa Ekpendu, on Wednesday evening, April 20. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Mprakpor was assaulted for overtaking the convoy of the Comptroller-General of prisons She was maltreated for overtaking the convoy of the prisons comptroller-general of the within the premises of the National Assembly, This Day reports.

Narrating what happened, Mprakpor, representing Aniocha/Oshimili federal constituency of Delta state, said she was going for mid-week service at about 4pm and because there were two lanes, she decided to overtake three green vehicles. As she overtook the convoy, some of the vehicles in the convoy moved to her right side and told her she was supposed to give way for the convoy of the comptroller-general. “Initially, I thought that my vehicle hit them, then I just wound down to apologise. When they saw it was a woman, they called me a useless prostitute, don’t you know that this is the convoy of the comptroller-general of prisons,” she explained. They descended on her and she was said to have been slapped by one of the aides, while Ekpendu sat inside his vehicle watching the assault.

 She said the matter, which lasted between 10 and 15 minutes, might have been a result of transferred aggression over the petition against him by an officer with Nigeria Prisons Service. Ekpendu had come to the National Assembly on invitation by the Uzoma Nkem-Abonta-led public petition committee over allegation of fraud against him by an officer. Hon. Leo Ogor, the minority leader brought a petition before the House of Representatives at plenary Thursday over the assault.
 “They blocked her car, and started bashing her car. When she wound down the windows, an aide slapped her in the face. The CG sat in the comfort of his car while this happened,” he narrated.

 The House summoned Ekpendu, and the minister of interior, Abdulraman Dambazau, to appear before its committee on interior over the assault, Vanguard reports. Also summoned are the security agencies within the National Assembly, such as Department of State Service, Nigeria Police; Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps; Federal Road Safety Commission, and Sergeant-at-Arms, who were said to be watching when the alleged assault took place in the presence of the prisons comptroller-general. The House called for the immediate sack of the comptroller-general, despite its resolution to give him fair hearing, adding that said his action was tantamount to assault, battery, inflicting of bodily harm as well as violation of the right of the woman.

 Contributing to the motion, the House leader, Femi Gbajabiamila, said: “This is the time we need to rally behind her not just because she is a member but because she is a human being and a woman. I am not interested in the issue of fair hearing. The man, as far as I am concerned, is guilty of assault, battery, bodily harm and violence against women.” The House mandated the committee to expedite action on the investigation so as to submit its report on Tuesday, April 26. 

Man Stabs Girlfriend To Death Over WhatsApp Text Describing His Small Penis

             
A man who allegedly stabbed his lover to death when he found her chatting on WhatsApp is under police guard in hospital after he also tried to kill himself.

It is believed the man got enraged when he checked his girlfriend’s phone and saw that she was telling her best friend about his small p_enis. The message read: ‘Aww shame une pipi elincane’

The 37-year-old man from AA section in Umlazi, who worked in the same building as his dead girlfriend (27), allegedly strangled her first before he pulled out a knife and stabbed her to death on Monday.

It is suspected that the couple had a heated argument at the girlfriend’s workplace, which is on the fourth âoor of a building on Smith Street at the Durban CBD. Witnesses told cops that the man who works at a lawyers’ offce in the building had suspected his girlfriend of cheating on him.

Police spokesman Captain Khephu Ndlovu told reporters that according to what the police were told at the scene, the man had accused his girlfriend of cheating on him. Ndlovu said the suspect reportedly stabbed his girlfriend from Siyanda near KwaMashu to death. “He allegedly first grabbed her by the throat and strangled her before stabbing her once in the chest. She died on the scene.

“After that he tried to kill himself by stabbing himself on the neck. He did not die and was taken to a local hospital, where he is under police guard. Once the suspect has recovered enough, he will make his first court appearance to face a charge of murder,” said Ndlovu.