Poly Student Narrates How Soldier R*ped her for Five Hours in Ibadan.

A 23-year-old National Diploma, ND, student
of Mass Communication Department, Ibarapa
Polytechnic in Ibadan on Monday narrated how
she was r*ped under a tree by one of the
security men attached to Operation Burst set
up by the state government to check
criminality in the state.
The sad incident happened in Eruwa around
10.30pm on August 29 while she was
returning after seeing off a friend. She said
she was r*ped for five hours before she was
let off the hook by the soldier.
How it happened
According to her, the soldier allegedly
ordered her to climb the motorcycle while
threatening to stab her with a knife. She said:
"It happened on Friday, August 29, 2014. I was
coming back to my room after seeing off a
friend. He accused me of being a cultist for
moving about around that time, but I denied
it. He then ordered me to climb his
motorcycle, but I pleaded with him that he
should let me go.
"He removed a knife and said that he would
stab me if I refused to obey him. So scared, I
climbed the Okada and he took me to the
Operation Burst office in Eruwa.
"When we got there, he forcefully led me to a
dark area under a tree and ordered me to
remove my dress to enable him see if I had
tattoos on my body...
"I told him I did not have tattoos and that he
should let me go. He then removed the knife
again and said that he would slaughter me like
a ram if I failed to 'cooperate' and that I would
be buried like many other girls who had failed
to cooperate in the past, and nobody would
trace my death to him.
"Sensing danger, I removed my clothes. He
ordered me to lie down under the tree and
had s*x with me several times while I was
crying.
"He r*ped me till 3:30am and I complained of
catching cold. He entered into the office and
brought out a bottle of beer. He gave it to me
to hold for him.
"Later he said he was going to bring a blanket
for me to cover my body. I waited for about
30 minutes, but when he did not return, I
dressed up and ran away."
Case reported at Police station
The victim's counsel, Mr. Adeosun, confirmed
her story, saying: "In the morning of Saturday,
August 30, 2014, the victim called her parents
on the telephone and told them what
happened. It was the parents that came to
brief our office. We thereafter advised that
the victim should report to the Police Station
at Eruwa, which she did."
When the matter was reported to the security
outfit, the girl identified the rapist among
other security operatives paraded before her.
To worsen her ordeal, the Eruwa General
Hospital where she went for test did not help
matter. She said on arrival in the hospital, the
doctor she met told her to buy hand gloves
which she did.
She said: "The doctor told me to lie down and
use his phone torchlight to examine my
private part and wrote a report that although
there was no trace of semen, the private part
had been tampered with."
It was gathered that the doctor claimed he
could not carry out test on the inner part of
the vagina because the hospital did not have
the facilities to carry out such test.
Unfortunately the result of the test did not
confirm r*pe:
"The outfit's Second in Command and the DPO
took the complainant to the Eruwa General
Hospital for medical examination, the result
of which they said proved negative.
"The soldier will, however, be charged for
abandoning his duty post in the night without
permission against standing instructions in the
Operation Burst's code of conduct."
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