Schoolgirl kidnapped, gang-raped for five days in Lagos
By Dayo Badmus,
The family of a 15-year-old Schoolgirl have found her after she went missing last Friday.
After she was found on the fifth day of her abduction, she was allegedly abducted, drugged and raped by four men in the Igando area of Lagos State.
Speaking to Punch Metro, the victim’s father, Tony said his daughter had just finished sitting her West African Senior Secondary School Examination and was on her way to church when she was abducted.
Tony revealed his daughter who was in company of her siblings, was going to the Saint John Catholic Church, Igando, when four men in a Toyota Camry, who pretended to give her a lift, drove her away.
He said; “My other children said on their way to church, they greeted the people who were in the car and they asked where they were going and they said church. So, they said they should get in the car that they were also heading in the same direction.
“But after their eldest sister entered the car, they sped off and her other siblings started shouting, ‘Sister, where are you going to?’ Immediately, they wound up the glass and even when she was shouting for help, nobody could hear her.
“After searching for her throughout Monday and Tuesday, I reported a case of a missing person at the Ikotun Police Station and the search for her continued.
We posted her picture on different WhatsApp groups until a church member saw the post on Friday and sent us the number plate of the car that was used to abduct my daughter.
“The church member said he saw when my daughter entered the car and he immediately wrote down the number plate of the car, but he didn’t know that she was abducted, adding that he saw the street where the car entered.
“We went to the street, Aiye Omere, Igando. When we got there, we saw the car and my daughter, where she was kept, drugged and was being raped by the four men from Monday till Friday between 4pm and 5pm when we got there.
“My daughter was not herself; the only thing she was able to tell her mother was that they kept drugging and raping her and whenever they were going out, they would drug her and then she would fall asleep until they returned.”
Tony revealed that the police has arrested some suspects and one of them has been identified as Ifeanyi the Great.
A classmate of the victim who lived on the street where she was violated was also arrested. He added;
“After we found my daughter, we took her to the Igando General Hospital so she could be examined, but she was rejected. They said we should come back on Monday, but a family member told us to go to Mirabel Centre at Ikeja and not wait till Monday.
“I want justice for my daughter. I want all those involved in the abduction, drugging and raping of my daughter to be punished for the violence they committed against her.”
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin who confirmed the incident, said;
“A case of abduction of a 15-year-old girl who was drugged and raped was transferred from the Ikotun Police Station to the gender unit at the state police headquarters.
The outcome of police investigation will determine the next line of action.”
(Punch)
