By Bose Adelaja
Tragedy struck in Oluwoye, Ibeshe,
Ikorodu yesterday, when a suspected serial rapist struck, killing an
expectant mother and attacked her husband and two children.
The victims among whom were simply identified as Kazeem,
Afusa and Baba who occupied a room apartment before the incident were
presumed to have been attacked with a grinding stone and a sharp
knife while in slumber. We gathered that the husband was
left in coma while one of the children had his ear chopped off by
their assailants who was said to have escaped after perpetrating the
evil.
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| Kazeem, Husband of the raped woman |
Having completed his mission in
Kazeem’s house, the suspected serial rapist was said to have
extended the crime to a neighbouring building and attacked a member
of Oodua Peoples’ Congress OPC, simply identified as Baba Junior
who is presently under medical attention at a private hospital.
Information at Vanguard disposal
said the suspect gained access into the victims’ rooms by breaking
through the window.
An eye witness who pleaded anonymity said
the door to the victims’ room remained shut throughout the
operation and nobody could give the account of what transpired in the
night as none of the victims was fit to talk to people.
However, the Nigeria Police Force have been intimated and have
commenced investigations.
According to eye witnesses’ account, there was
no cry for help by the victims throughout the operation but a
co-tenant observed while going out that Kazeem’s window was broken
then he raised the alarm which attracted other neighbours but to their
astonishment, the door to the room shut and that was when it dawned
on them that a serial rapist had struck.
On breaking the door, Kazeem and his the two children
were found helpless on the floor while the deceased was lying on the
bed but nobody could account for what transpired.
While Kazeem’s neighbours were
attending to the victims, another shout for help was heard in the
neighborhood where Baba Junior was found in the pool of his own blood
with a grinding stone placed beside him.
Kazeem and his children were taken to Ikorodu
General Hospital while Baba Junior was taken to a nearby hospital but
the body has been deposited at a morgue.
Owode\Ibeshe town comprises over 40 community development
associations have recorded series of serial rape including that of a
teacher with Methodist Primary School, Ibeshe 27 years old Grace
Jubril on Sunday June 5, 2016.
Also, 86 years old Mrs Belau Jimoh was raped and
attacked at Oke-Ota in the month of May while a similar incident was
recorded in Oremeta community in July 2016, where a 63 years old
grandmother and her eight years old granddaughter Marvelous and
Fransisca Mba were raped to coma and both were admitted at Ikorodu
General Hospital.
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| Injured Security personnel in the area |
The series of attack and rape have put
the communities under pressure such that a large number of women have
moved out en masse while the remaining now live under palpable fear.
In the month of May, some Ibeshe women staged a peaceful protest to
the palace of the traditional ruler Oba Richard Ogunsanya but all to
no avail. Also in the month of June, the
community development committee staged a peaceful protest at the
State house, Alausa and presented a letter to a representative of the
governor about the happenings in their communities but all these seem
to have yielded no result.
In line with the happenings, the joint
community development associations had on Saturday September 3rd,
2016, organized a prayer session to cleanse the land and this seems
to have yielded a positive result until yesterday when another
occurrence was recorded. The traditional ruler of
Ibeshe has kept mum over the development during series of Vanguard
visit to his office but a member of the House of Representative in
charge of Ikorodu Constituency Honourable Jimi Benson said he will
get to the root of the matter. In a telephone conversation with
Vanguard, he said, “ I have held a meeting with the people of
Ibeshe Community Development Association over the security issue
bothering them, considering that security is everybody’s business
and the people are best suited to provide the necessary information
the Police need to apprehend the person behind the rapes and kidnaps
in Ibeshe,’’
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