Policemen attached to Adeniji Adele division have arrested a 22-year-old
man who alleged kidnapped and raped a student of the University of
Lagos, UNILAG, Akoka, for turning down his advances.
The suspect,
Babajide Bashorun, was also alleged to have taken nude shots of his
victim (names withheld) and pasted them on the internet with her real
name, school, department and age.But the suspect claimed that the lady
was his girlfriend. He admitted to have taken her nude pictures and gave
them to his friends whose identities he gave as Aje Mayowa and Babajide
Ademuyiwa, both final year students of Architecture also of UNILAG.
The
incident, as gathered, occurred two months ago at 1, Ajose Street,
Enu-Owa area of Lagos Island. But the female undergraduate was silent
over the matter until her relations abroad who stumbled on the nude
pictures on the internet contacted her mother in Nigeria, last week.
How it started
Narrating
how the incident occurred, the female undergraduate said: “Babajide
came to our house to treat our dog. In the process, he requested for my
phone number and I reluctantly gave him. He started calling me and told
me he would like to go out with me.
“But I told him I already
had a boyfriend whom I loved. Yet, he kept calling me, saying he was not
interested in just going out with me but wanted to marry me. Aside
that, he kept monitoring my movements and at a point, I deleted his
contact on my phone.
“I was returning home for a weekend in April
, a car stopped by my side at Idumota bus-stop. Jide was sitting beside
a driver who was unknown to me.
“On sighting him, I walked past.
But the next thing he did was to hold me by the hand, dragged me into
the car and drove to his house.
“When he got home, he started
beating me and tore my clothes, asking what I wanted that he could not
give me. He instructed me to unlock my phone and when he discovered that
I used my boyfriend’s name as password, he resumed the beating.
“At
a point, he gave me his phone to speak with some of his friends who
told me I was in for trouble, for turning down a member of their unnamed
cult, threatening that they would kill me for treating him shabbily.
“Thereafter,
he raped me and when he was done, his friend took his turn despite my
plea. When he saw I was bleeding, he stopped and started begging me. At
that point, he brought out his phone and started taking my nude
pictures. I made attempt to cover my face but he hit me on the head
with a bottle and continued taking the shots.
How I escaped
“I
begged him to allow me call my mother to give him some money for my
release but he refused. I also appealed to him to delete my pictures
when he started begging me.
“I stayed in that room all night till
the next day when he went out to get me some drugs. Immediately he
stepped out, I tried the door and discovered it was not locked from
outside. I quickly changed into one of my dirty clothes in my bag and
escaped.
“But I could not tell anyone at home. When my elder
brother asked what the problem was on seeing the blood stained clothes, I
told him I was involved in an accident and when my mother insisted on
knowing what the problem was, I told her I fought with a course mate.
She insisted on going to school with me on seeing the magnitude of the
injury but I prevented her.
“Barely had I settled down than
Babjide called, threatening to kill me if I disclosed what happened to
anyone. As if that was not enough, his friends also called and
threatened me as well.”
She is my girlfriend — Suspect
However,
on his part, Babjide claimed that the undergraduate was his girlfriend,
adding that they only had a fight on that fateful day.
Expressing shock over his arrest, he said: “She is my girlfriend. We only fought in April and have resolved the matter.
“What
led to the fight was her request for money to buy an IPad which cost
over N100,000. Because of my love for her, I managed to raise N70,000.
She visited me on that day and I advised her to change her way of living
which included going to club .
I also accused her of flirting
with other men. Along the line, we started fighting and I used a mop
stick to hit her and in the process , took shots of her and sent the
pictures to my friends. But I did not tell them to paste the pictures on
the internet.”
Police sources hinted that efforts were on to
arrest Mayowa and Ademuyiwa alleged to have pasted the victim’s nude
pictures on the internet, while Babajide had been charged to court for
kidnapping, rape, conspiracy, attempt to commit murder, indecent
assault, and assault occasioning harm.