Four friends, Femi Olatunji, 17;
Oyekanmi Rasheed, 18; Oladele Habib, 18 and John Alade, 16, are
currently chilling at the police net in Lagos, for allegedly raping
14-year-old Habibat Adeolu (not real names).
Speaking to Saturday PUNCH when
the men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Lagos State Command
paraded some suspected criminals recently, Habibat said the friends
threatened to kill her if she told anybody about the incident.
Narrating her ordeal, the young girl who
said she had known Femi as her tailor, said she went to him to have her
dress mended when he and his friends pounced on her.
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“Femi had once told me he would want to
marry me and I told him I wasn’t interested. That particular day, I had
gone to his shop to give him a dress to fix for me. He said Brother
Abidoye (I used to run errands for him) was calling me. I got to Brother
Abidoye’s room and I didn’t see him.
“At that point, Femi and his friends
entered the room, switched off the light and they raped me. I tried
shouting and calling for help but because they had tied my mouth, I
couldn’t shout very well.
“When they finished, my private part was
paining me. I had to tell my mother what happened. That was when she
alerted the police and the boys were arrested,” she said.
However, the young men claimed they didn’t rape her saying it was a consensual act.
Speaking to our correspondent, Femi said
Habibat has been his girlfriend for about a year and she actually paid
her for the sex they had.
“She is just lying against me. We have
been dating since last year. She is more than 14 years old. She came to
my shop that day and I suggested to her that we should enter the room.
She said I should give her money. I asked her how much she wanted and
she said N1,000. I gave her and we went inside and we had sex.
Punch
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