This is just sad. I hope the poor girl gets justice. Above is Daniel Okereke, the alleged rapist.
Culled from Vanguard
November 6, 2014 was like every other day for 300 level
student of Computer Science (names withheld) at the University of Lagos, Akoka
Yaba. As the ailing student who managed to attend lectures stepped into her
apartment located at Moremi hall, never in her wildest imagination did she
envisage she would end up being a victim of rape.
However, the signal of an imminent emotional and
psychological trauma reared up after one Daniel Okereke, a man that had
reportedly being wooing her since last month, came visiting. Without any
inkling of an apparent sinister motive, the undergraduate was said to have
reluctantly left to attend to her visitor,who upon seeing her condition, opted
to take her to a pharmaceutical store around Akoka to get some drugs.
Not yet done with his show of concern, the visitor
reportedly took the female student to an eatery, so that she could eat before
taking the drugs. Thereafter, he reportedly took her to his abode at Mende,
Mariland where he allegedly ended up raping her.
Narrating her ordeal to the police, the student who had
marks of strings on her back, hands and legs , narrated how she narrowly
escaped being murdered by Okereke, in her bid to free herself from his grips.
According to her: “ When he came visiting, I never knew he
had something sinister in his mind until we got to his place. At the eatery, he
ordered that the food be made take-away and asked me to go eat it in his place
and at the same time rest before taking me back to the hostel.
Immediately we entered the room, he secured the door and I
had supper and later asked to be taken back . But he said he must have sex with
me. I tried to appeal to him to consider my state of health and take me back to
campus.
Before I knew what was happening, he started beating me,
forcing to have his way. As if that was not enough, he called in seven guards
in the compound who assisted him and tied me down. He thereafter, went into his
kitchen and brought out a knife, threatening to kill me if I resisted. He took
me to one of the rooms where he brought out a condom and raped me.
Crime Guard gathered that when the 23 year-old lady was
untied, she went violent and started shattering every property she could lay
her hands on. In the process, one of the objects she allegedly threw out of the
window, landed on a vehicle belonging to one of the tenants, smashing its
windscreen. That attracted neighbours.
The case was reported at Area ‘F’ Ikeja , following which
Okereke was arrested . During interrogation, he reportedly claimed to be nephew
of a former Director -General of the Nigerian Stock Exchange NSE and cousin to
a front-line Nollywood actress who ironically has a foundation which promotes
the well being of women.
He was said to have been released on bail, an action the
victim frowned out. The case was thereafter transferred to the State Criminal
Investigation Department, SCID Panti, where the 36-year-old Okereke was
rearrested.
He reportedly claimed that the victim destroyed his property , an action that was engendered by the violence meted to her. Okereke was charged to court Thursday. Equally charged was Idris Abubakar, the security guard who allegedly assisted Okereke to tie up the victim.
They claimed not guilty and were granted bail, while the matter was adjourned till January 9, 2015, for trial.
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