A Lagos Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court sitting in Ikeja, has been told how a 20-year-old woman was raped in an uncompleted building.

A prosecution witness, a medical doctor, Mrs Aniekan Makanjuola, yesterday told Justice Rahmon Oshodi, the survivor presented herself at the centre on March 16, 2020 for medical examination.

The witness was led-in-evidence by the state counsel, Ms. Inumidun Solarin in an ongoing trial of a middle age man, Idowu Omashegbe over alleged raped of a 20-year-old woman.

Makanjuola, a staff of Women at Risk International Foundation (WARIF), narrated to the court how the defendant and others still at large allegedly dragged the survivor to an uncompleted building, robbed her of a phone and forcefully had sexual intercourse with her.

She told the court that the survivor told her, when she came to WARIF, that armed boys accosted her and her friends and collected their phones.
According to her: “Survivor and her friends were returning from an outing when she overheard some boys shouting ‘thief’ and they hid in a house, after the boys left, they came out but unknown to them, another group of armed boys followed them and collected their phones. The survivor said the boys also collected a phone from her belonging to another person, and she begged them to return the phone but the boys insisted she must follow them before they give her the phone.”

She added: “When they got to a location, the boys told her they would only give her the phone if they had sex with her and she said out of fear, she agreed and each of the boys took turns to have sex with her.”

The witness further told the court that the survivor said that same day, two of those boys that had earlier raped her ran after her after she boarded a tricycle and dragged her into an uncompleted building. She said the two boys came on a bike and blocked the tricycle, ordered her out of it, took her to an uncompleted building and had sexual intercourse with her.

She said they also locked her up in the building after collecting her phone, adding that she was able to come out of the building and met some officers whom she reported the incident to.

“They followed her back to the building where one of the boys was apprehended.”

The witness said that when the medical examination was conducted on the survivor, it showed blunt penetration of private part, which was consistent with the survivor’s history.

When the witness was cross-examined, she said the survivor did not mention the names of the boys and her medical examination was based on what she saw.

The trial judge subsequently adjourned the case to May 5,2023 for continuation of trial.