Saharareporters:
Saharareporters has
learned of the arrest of all the perpetrators of a bestial torture and sodomy
of three women in Ejigbo which happened February last year.
The arrest of the
sodomy gang, Saharareporters was reliably informed, happened at the palace of
Oba Moruf Adisa Ojoola of Ejigbo earlier today.
The arrest was
possible due to immense pressure on Oba Moruf himself, he reportedly got
all the men assembled at his palace around 11pm Saturday night. The gathering
of the gang by Oba Moruf followed a closure of the market yesterday, which
prevented the market men and women from carrying out their trading activities
until the perpetrators were identified and brought to book.
The gang’s torture and
sodomizing of a lady by thrusting of a bottle of ground pepper and sticks in
her genital had resulted in her death, two months after. She was later
identified as “Juliana” by her father, a palm wine tapper, who revealed that he
also lost a toddler in the incidence as his wife, mother of the baby while
being tortured by the gang was not allowed to attend to the baby. Continue...
In addition to
torture, the gang also destroyed the palm wine tapper’s house and banished him
from the community, after he was made to pay N50,000 as fine to secure the
release of his wife and two daughters.
On Thursday, last
week, Oba Moruf was invited by the Lagos Assembly Committee regarding the
investigation into the crime. A source familiar with the meeting of the Oba
with the committee told our correspondent that the Oba’s demeanor at the
meeting was cooperative, and he did not spend much time. The previous day,
Wednesday, the Iyaloja (Ejigbo Market women leader) also visited the committee
on invitation. She was accompanied by her husband, who pledged support toward
the investigation.
The Babaloja, who
allegedly received a fine from the palm wine tapper and also supervised his
banishment, did not honor an invitation by the committee. He gave the excuse
that he had injury on his leg. But sources in the market said the Babaloja may
have had the injury when he scaled a fence to escape arrest by a police
team that visited the market for investigation last week.
At a public hearing
upon constitution of the Lagos Assembly committee, the police, the local
government chairman, market women and other members of the Ejigbo community had
denied knowledge of the crime, even as sources from the community insisted the
crime happened in the public glare.
As efforts progressed
into finding the perpetrators, the police, through its DPO in Ejigbo, CSP
Oliver Abbey had clearly shown complicity and laxity by claiming it
doubted the event happened at all, evidently by doing nothing about it. CSP
Abbey was later deployed out of the area after his compromised position became
clear to his superiors.
It is expected that
the arrested gang would be tried for the crime of murder, and the illegal sum
collected from Mr. Freeman, the palm wine tapper to secure his wife and
daughters recovered.
Mr. Freeman’s family
is also expected to be rehabilitated.
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