A 19-year-old girl (names withheld) got more
than she bargained for when she visited the wife
of her ex-boyfriend called Kingsley, who
delivered a newborn baby, recently. Unknown to
the victim, she apparently walked into a trap set
by an angry ex-boyfriend.
The agony of the ugly incident that followed later
was not just that she was gang-raped , her
sister molested and thoroughly beaten up, she
later agreed to an amicable settlement just
because of fear of another attack.
Crime Guard learnt that the ex-boy friend is the
son of a serving Chief Superintendent of
Police,CSP, attached to a police unit in Jos,
while his mother sells food at Area K command
along Badagry expressway.
Narrating the incident to Crime Guard , the
victim said: “On that day I went there at Ketu in
Ijanikin to visit my ex-boy friend Kingsley, whose
wife had just had a baby. When I got there, I met
him outside, I asked him of his wife, he said she
was inside with the new born baby. So, I went
inside to see her. When I got into the house, the
wife and the baby were not inside but I met two
other guys.
“I decided to go out but the door was locked, I
asked Kingsley to please open the door so that I
could go since the wife was not inside.
His friends said I would not except I brought my
younger sister. Then, I asked what for, they said
my sister offended them at a party they attended
recently. They said she denied them at the party
which led to one of them been beaten by other
guests at the party. They said they have been
looking for my sister, that I should call her.
“I told them she just lost her phones so there
was no way I could contact her. Then, they
brought out their knives and axes and asked me
to pull off my clothes, and that if I don’t take my
clothes off, they would start cutting me little by
little and then I will die a slow and painful death.
I started pleading with them not to hurt me. But
they refused and continued to threaten me.
“When it became clear that they would harm me
if I didn’t yield to their request, I started pulling
my clothes. After that, Kingsley was the first one
that raped me while his friends used their phones
to record it. When he was through, the second
one called Ifeanyi aka Fabulous and the third one
Asaly, took turns to rape me. After they finished,
they asked me to wear my clothes, which I
quickly did. They gave me my phone which they
sized initially to call my mum, to enable me
reach my sister which I did. They made sure the
phone was on speaker so that they could hear
the conversation between my mum and I.
“Unfortunately, when I called, she said she was
far from home where my sister was but promised
to call back as soon as she got home. I told her
it was urgent that I speak with my sister and she
said she would be in the house within the next
two hours. This was at about 12 noon. So,
while I was waiting for my mum to call, two
other friends of Kingsley came to the house and
also raped me. When it was 2pm, they put their
knives into a lit stove threatening to use it on my
body if my mum did not call back.
“I had to call my mum who said she was almost
in the house. When she got to the house, she
called me and I told my sister to come to the
junction that leads to Kingsley’s house because I
didn’t want her to come to the house so that
they won’t rape her too.
When she got to the junction, she called me, I
pleaded with them to allow me go to the
junction to get my sister, that if they went to the
junction without me, there was no way my sister
would agree to come with them.
Initially, they refused, but later, they agreed and
instructed Kingsley and Asale to go with me to
the bus stop. “When I got to the junction,
because my eyes were very, very red and my
face swollen, my sister knew something was
fishy, she asked me what happened, I told her
nothing that I have been sleeping. And she said
that is a big lie that even when I wake from
sleep, my face is never swollen.
When she insisted, I told her everything in my
dialect so that they won’t understand what I
was telling them. But one of them felt I was
explaining what happened to my sister, he called
the other three who were in the house to come,
that I had finished explaining to them.
“When I saw the other guys coming, I collected
money from my sister and pretended that I
wanted to buy water from a nearby shop, when I
got there, I told the woman who owns the shop
what happened but she said they won’t be able
to attack us outside in the open. While I was
there, they started slapping and hitting my
younger sister. I went there and was pleading
with them to stop beating her.
They said I should keep calm, if I didn’t, they
would deal with me also. So, I did. The attack
drew the attention of commercial tricycle riders
who were at the bus stop, they came to rescue
us but were sent away after they told them it
was boyfriend and girlfriend issue. I told them it
was not true.
“Luckily, for us, one of our neighbours, a soldier
who lives in the same compound saw how they
were beating us, he alighted from the tricycle to
find out why they were attacking my sister.
I narrated what happened to him. After, he was
able to rescue my sister from them, they
attacked him, when he tried to call his fellow
soldiers for help via his phone, they snatched it
from him. It was while they were attacking the
soldier that I escaped to a relative’s house
nearby to call my mum. My sister also escaped
after that.
When I got home, I explained what happened to
my mum who took me to the police station to
report the case and subsequently, Kingsley and
two others were arrested while others fled. Giving
an insight into her relationship with Kingsley, the
victim said, “Something happened between both
of us while we were dating; I got pregnant only
for me to discover that a lady was already seven
months pregnant for him. So, I had to get rid of
my pregnancy because there was no way I was
ready to become a second wife.
A close family friend who pleaded anonymity
also told Crime Guard that the case was settled
amicably later after both families met with the
police.
The victim, however, said they agreed to
settlement out of court because of fear. “After
we reported the case to the police, three of the
suspects were immediately arrested in order to
retrieve the video recording of the barbaric act
but no video was found in their phones.
The reason the family resorted to settlement was
because we didn’t want our lives to be at risk.
This guy and his group are cultists and there is
every possibility that they might attack us again
if the suspects prosecuted.
