Gruesome details of teenager’s ‘rape’ at Lagos police station

As reported by The punchThe lady, whose name has been withheld to protect her identity, was the victim of a brutal sexual assault while trying to get her stolen phone back.

Her ordeal began when some traffic robbers, popularly called “One Chance”, stole her phone as she was returning from Ikeja with her siblings and grandmother.

Meanwhile, the accused police officer is said to have learned about the matter when the teenager told her mother about the robbery in her father’s shop.

The officer then voluntarily offered to help her locate the missing phone and took her statement.

“On June 29, Officer Owolabi called my mother and told her he had arrested the person with my phone and that my mother should send me to his police station and I went there. When I got there, I was told that they made a mistake in the pursuit and that the person arrested was not the one with my phone.” said the victim of the platform.

Shortly thereafter, however, things took an ugly turn when the police officer allegedly began making unwanted sexual advances toward the teenager.

“The officer sent his personal assistant to call me to his office and he showed me the way there. When I entered his office and greeted him, he responded and got up to lock the door and put the key in his pocket. I shouted, ‘Sir, why did you lock the door?’

“He tried to tear my clothes off and I screamed. Then he took out a gun, cocked it and threatened to shoot me if I screamed. Then he started harassing me and when I resisted, he hit me on the back of the head with the gun and raped me.

“I saw his phone ringing and the caller was my mother, but he told me that since I did not have a phone with me, I should tell her that I had not come to his office and from now on I should call his office every day during school holidays or on my way home from school until 12 noon, that he had been watching me for two years and now I had just fallen into his trap,” the desperate victim told our correspondent..

The victim’s mother, identified as Ms Aramide Oluponaconfirmed the allegation, but also accused the police of trying to cover up the incident.

Olupona told The punch that her daughter began bleeding a day after the attack and was taken to the Mirabel Centre, adding that the incident was also reported to the authorities.

“The suspect’s wife and the rest of his family came to my shop and begged me that he would retire soon, but what about my daughter who was raped? Is it because I am a poor woman?

“The area commander of the station also invited me and asked me to file the case. Now they say the suspect has fled and his whereabouts are unknown, but my daughter is desperate and has said she wants to commit suicide. My girl needs justice,“, the victim’s mother was quoted as saying.

In response to the incident, state police spokesman Benjamin Hundeyin, when contacted by the platform, denied any attempt to cover up the allegations.

“The CP immediately instructed the Gender Unit to launch an investigation and this is ongoing. There is no plan to cover up the allegation,” Said Hundeyin.