How students ‘raped female colleagues from another school’ inside bush in Oyo

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FIVE secondary school students of Ejioku Community Grammar School, Oyo State, who allegedly ambushed female students who came from another school, dragged them into the bush and raped them have spoken on their involvement and the role played by each of them.

The male students were arrested by Amotekun Corps, Oyo State Command after information was received on the incident. The second in command of Oyo Amotekun, Kazeem Babalola Akinro, confirmed this when contacted.

Investigation revealed that the rape incident was not an isolated case, as it is said to be the norm among male students in the areas.
In the instant case, one of the victims, a 14-year-old student, was said to have had her hymen forcefully broken after two boys had earlier failed to penetrate her private part.

The students involved were identified as Mayowa, 17; Joshua, 16; Seun, 17; Sunday, 16 and Basit, 17 (surnames withheld). Two of them, Seun and Sunday, are from the same mother but different fathers.

Nigerian Tribune gathered from a credible source who was a parent in the school that the act was so rampant among the students that the principal had warned them. The source said that it was also discussed at the Parent-Teacher Association meeting where parents were told to warn their male children.

One of the suspects currently at large was said to have used his motorcycle that he usually brought to school to chase the girls into the bush beside their field where his colleagues would be lying in waiting. They would then pounce on the girls and start raping them.

The latest victims were four girls but three of the parents reportedly decided to keep sealed lips. The case caught the attention of a female lawyer, Barrister Modupe Aderemi, and she was able to have a conversation with one of the traumatized girls whose hymen was brutally broken, and she narrated her experience. Strangely, the Nigerian Tribune learnt that the fatherless girl was quickly whisked off by her father’s family from Ibadan to a town that shares boundary with where they live so that the case would die off.

In their latest sexual escapade, a member of the group of suspected rapists recorded a video of the deflowered girl as she was being abused. In the video, seen by the Nigerian Tribune, the girl was begging Mayowa as he held her neck with his hands, saying that it was hurting her. The boy, however, threatened her not to shout, barking at her to raise her legs. Crying, she pleaded, telling the suspect that she was still young and had not known any man. She begged him not to deflower her, but one of the boys came and pushed his finger forcefully into her private part to break her hymen in order to allow easy penetration.

The girl’s father is said to be late, and his relatives decided not to pursue the case, blaming the mother and the person who offered assistance for reporting the case to Amotekun.

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