Being raped is an incident that cannot been forgotten in a life time. I guess it now on the increasing side these days whose fault we may ask ? But the fact still remains there is no excuse for doing what is wrong.. Here is a true life story from Vanguard ...
A Lagos based female evangelist (names
witheheld), recently kidnapped and gang raped
by her abductors around Ogijo area of Ikorodu
Lagos, left everyone speechless when she told
two of her abductors arrested by the Lagos
State Police command that she had forgiven
them for their sins.
The traumatized evangelist who is still trying to
come to terms with her nine days despicable
experience in the hands of nine kidnappers,
even went further to lay her hands on the
arrested suspects, advising them to turn new
leaves in order to make heaven at the end of
their sojourn on earth.
The woman, as gathered, was abducted early
this month and kept in the kidnaper’s den; an
uncompleted building in Ogijo, Ikorodu,
alongside other kidnapped victims, among
whom was a Briton. It was gathered that her
abductors tore her clothes into shreds and left
her in her nude throughout her nine days
stay,where they had her in turns and at any
given time.
While the dehumanizing act was on, one of the
kidnappers reportedly put a call through to the
evangelist’s husband, demanding for N20
million ransom. But her husband reportedly
dropped the sum of N2 million in an
undisclosed location the fourth day but did not
have his wife released to him as expected.
Escape at last
On the ninth day, Crime Guard was informed
that eight members of the kidnap gang drove
out in two vehicles to collect a ransom of N25
million, for the release of the Briton , at
Caterpillar bus-stop, Ojota, leaving one of them,
(Emeka) behind, to guard their victims.
Moments later, the armed kidnapper was said
to had gone to the exhausted evangelist to
ease his sexual urge. But he got more than
what he bargained for as the exhausted
woman, in what could be described as a
miracle, flung him away,and he hit his head on
the brick wall.
According to the woman evangelist who initially
bluntly refused to speak to anyone , other than
the arrested kidnappers and Police, “ I do not
know where the strength came from. But as he
was about penetrating… I pushed him and he
hit his head on the wall and passed out.
Without caring whether I was naked or not, or
whether I would be shot in the process, I rushed
out of the uncompleted building shouting for
help. To my surprise, I discovered that the
building was even located among residential
buildings.”
It was learnt that one of the curious
sympathizers who gathered round her, gave her
a wrapper to cover her nakedness.
Back inside the uncompleted building, the
kidnapper,on regaining consciousness,
reportedly scaled the fence and fled,abandoning
his AK 47 riffle, apparently afraid that his
escapee could have blown the lid. An irate mob
stormed the building later, where the Briton was
rescued and the duo taken to the Area N
Command,Ijede.
Meanwhile, the rest members of the gang who
had earlier gone to collect the ransom for the
release of the Briton at Ojota, met their waterloo
at the designated point of receipt.
Unknown to them, operatives of the Special
Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, who got wind of
their escapades, intercepted them, resulting in
a gun duel which forced the kidnappers to
abandon their loot and escaped.
One of them identified as Emeka was, however,
arrested and he took the operatives to their
hideout from where their victims were
discovered to have been taken to Area N
Command, Ijede. Police sources told Crime
Guard that Emeka’s confessional statement led
to the arrest of another suspected member of
the gang known as Ikechukwu Ibe.
In his confessional statement, Emeka
exonerated him self from the gang rape,saying:
“ I could not do it because she kept shouting
the name Jesus! Besides, when I discovered
she was married, I refused to take part. I even
told my colleagues to let her be, since her
husband had already paid N2 Million. It was
Sam, Innocent, Ikechukwu,Ugo and the rest
that raped her . She was kept permanently
naked to allow them easy access.
Sam is our leader while Ikechukwu is his
deputy. Ugo is the messenger and ‘pointer’.
What he does is to identify our victim after
which we would intercept the vehicle. My job is
to alight from our operational vehicle, get the
victim inside before zooming off. At times, we
kidnap our victims through information from
their drivers,” he said.
One AK 47 and one pump action rifle were
reportedly recovered by the policemen at the
kidnappers den.
