Police in Lagos have arrested three friends for
allegedly gang raping a 17 year old girl and
uploading the video online. The suspects, Shola
Owolabi (28 ), Michael Lanre (21) and Samuel
Akpan (34 ), denied it was a gang rape. The
suspects said it was consensual.
allegedly gang raping a 17 year old girl and
uploading the video online. The suspects, Shola
Owolabi (28 ), Michael Lanre (21) and Samuel
Akpan (34 ), denied it was a gang rape. The
suspects said it was consensual.
They also claimed they recorded the act mistakenly.
But the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni,
who paraded the suspects yesterday at the
Command Headquarters, said the men were fond of
gang raping young girls and recording the girls in
the act and uploading it to embarrass the victims.
Owoseni said when the matter was reported at Ipaja
Ayobo Police Division , the policemen swung into
action and arrested the culprits.
According to him, the suspects also confessed to
the crime during interrogation. Owolabi said he and
Lanre met Akpan making love to the girl. He said:
“I went to work that fateful day. When I came back,
I went to Samuel’s house only to see him making
love to the girl.
“When I entered my friend ’s room, he just finished
making love to her. I persuaded the girl to allow me
sleep with her and she accepted.
I made love to her too. While I was doing it with
the girl , Michael (Lanre) walked in and brought out
his phone and claimed he was using the torch on
the phone to look for something in the room, but
he was filming me as I was making love to the girl.
”
Owolabi said they were arrested when the landlord
of Akpan’s house, who heard the scream of the girl,
went to report the matter at the police station.
“We were arrested in the act,” he added. Lanre
explained that he also had sex with the girl, but he
did not know the girl before then.
He said: “Owolabi and I walked into Samuel ’s
apartment when we met both of them making love.
We persuaded the girl to allow us to make love to
her too which she consented to. We went only one
round each.
When I brought my phone out, I only wanted to use
the torch, I never thought of filming them in the act.
It was a mistake.
I did not upload the video on the internet. ”
Akpan told our correspondent that he did not know
his friends would come when he was making love
to the girl. He said: “I am a bus conductor. It was
some boys in my compound who I used to send on
errands who saw the girl and introduced her to me.
We became friends thereafter. “The following day,
she came to visit me. We were both inside my
room and I persuaded her to allow me to make
love to her which she accepted.
My friends walked in and met us in the act. The
room was dark, one of them wanted to use the
torch on his phone.
He did not know that the camera of the phone was
recording what we were doing. It was when we got
to the police station they discovered the video on
his phone. “ I am not happy to find myself in this
situation. I don ’t know what to tell my parents
back home in Akwa Ibom State if they see me in
this condition. ”
