Police operatives in Lagos State have arrested four young men after allegedly kidnapping and gang raping a 15-year old girl for five days.
The young men were said to have kidnapped, drugged and raped in Igando area of Lagos State.
The victim was found last Friday, after she had been violated by the boys.
The victim’s father simply identified as Tony, who was seeking justice for his daughter, said she was going to the church when she was kidnapped.
Revealing that his daughter just finished her West African Senior Secondary School Examination, he said: “She was going to the Saint John Catholic Church, Igando, when four men in a Toyota Camry, who pretended to give her a lift, drove her away. My daughter was in the company of her siblings when the incident happened.
“My other children said on their way to church, they greeted the people who were in the car and they asked where they were going and they said church. So, they said they should get in the car that they were also heading in the same direction.
“But after their eldest sister entered the car, they sped off and her other siblings started shouting, ‘Sister, where are you going to?’ Immediately, they wound up the glass and even when she was shouting for help, nobody could hear her.
“After searching for her throughout Monday and Tuesday, I reported a case of a missing person at the Ikotun Police Station and the search for her continued. We posted her picture on different WhatsApp groups until a church member saw the post on Friday and sent us the number plate of the car that was used to abduct my daughter.
“The church member said he saw when my daughter entered the car and he immediately wrote down the number plate of the car, but he didn’t know that she was abducted, adding that he saw the street where the car entered.
“We went to the street, Aiye Omere, Igando. When we got there, we saw the car and my daughter, where she was kept, drugged and was being raped by the four men from Monday till Friday between 4.00pm and 5.00pm when we got there.
“My daughter was not herself; the only thing she was able to tell her mother was that they kept drugging and raping her and whenever they were going out, they would drug her and then she would fall asleep until they returned.
“One of the suspects arrested for the crime is called Ifeanyi the Great. Also, a classmate of my daughter, who lived on the street where she was violated was arrested by the police.
“After we found my daughter, we took her to the Igando General Hospital so she could be examined, but she was rejected. They said we should come back on Monday, but a family member told us to go to Mirabel Centre at Ikeja and not wait till Monday.
“I want justice for my daughter. I want all those involved in the abduction, drugging and raping of my daughter to be punished for the violence they committed against her.”
The Lagos State Police Command’s spokesman, Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed the incident, said: “A case of abduction of a 15-year old girl, who was drugged and raped was transferred from the Ikotun Police Station to the gender unit at the state police headquarters. The outcome of police investigation will determine the next line of action.”
