Via Punch:
The police in Lagos
have arrested two undergraduates for allegedly raping a job-seeker, identified
only as Nike (Pictured above), and robbing her of valuables in the Igando area of the state.
Punch learnt that the suspects, identified as Valentine and
Kusimo, allegedly took turns to rape their victim after luring her into a
hotel.
Valentine, an indigene
of Imo State, was said to be seeing off the 27-year-old with the hope that she
would not raise the alarm when Nike suddenly called for help.
The suspects were
subsequently arrested and taken to the Igando Police Division.
The incident happened
on Thursday, January 14, 2016, on Idowu Ibiyemi Street, in the Igando area of
Lagos State.
A police source told
our correspondent that Valentine and Nike had met on a dating site.
He said, “Valentine is
a 400-level Civil Engineering student of a university in Imo State. He chatted
up the lady on the dating site and from there, their conversation shifted to Whatsapp,
a mobile messaging application.
“The suspect told his
friend, Kusimo, about the girl and they decided to trick her. Kusimo, a student
of a polytechnic in Ogun State, would sometimes take Valentine’s phone and be
chatting with Nike, without the girl knowing that it was Kusimo.
“Having done that for
some days, they decided to invite her to Lagos.”
It was gathered that
Nike, an indigene of Osun State, travelled down from Ibadan, the Oyo State
capital, where she was based, to the Igando area.
Our correspondent
learnt that the victim and Valentine scheduled to meet at his house.
Punch gathered that instead of taking her to his apartment, the
suspect took her to a popular hotel in the area.
The source said, “The
girl did not know she was taken to a hotel because he took her through the back
into the room.
“The second suspect,
had, however, hid inside the toilet. As the lady entered the room, Valentine
shut the door and Kusimo jumped out from his hideout with a bottle. He smashed
the bottle on the ground and he told the girl to cooperate or they would kill
her.
“While Valentine had
two rounds, the second suspect had three rounds of sex with her. After they had
raped her, they robbed her of her BlackBerry and N15, 000.
“In order to prevent
her from exposing them, they took snapshots of her nakedness and threatened
that if she told anyone about her ordeal, they would put the pictures on the
Internet.”
Punch gathered that after committing the act, Valentine decided
to see Nike off.
The victim was,
however, said to have raised the alarm, drawing the attention of passersby.
She was said to have
narrated what happened to people, which led to the arrest of both suspects.
They were detained at
the Igando Police Division, before the matter was transferred to the State
Department of Criminal Investigation, Yaba.
Another police source,
however, said the suspects claimed that Nike agreed to mutual sex with them and
only raised the alarm because she was not well paid.
She said, “How can you
leave your place in Ibadan for Lagos and claim not to know what you are doing?
It is not true that they raped her. She only wanted to make money off the men,
and that was why she raised the alarm outside.
“The suspect said she
demanded N200,000 for settlement and she is saying she does not want her fiancé
and family members to be aware. She is not innocent.”
The Police Public
Relations Officer, Dolapo Badmus, while confirming the incident, said the
police had charged both suspects to court.
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