Man defiles granddaughter, another rapes grandmother in Yobe, Ondo

• Man sentenced to 20 years in prison for defiling, torturing daughter
• Police arrest three of five men who gang-raped lady in Ogun

A resident of Yobe State, Mallam Saidu Yusuf, has been arrested for sexually defiling his 12-year-old granddaughter, name withheld, in Pompomari ward of Damaturu, the state capital.
 
Confirming the arrest of the 70-year-old suspect yesterday, the Yobe State Police Command’s spokesman, ASP Abdulkarim Dungus, disclosed that “at about 4:00 a.m. on Tuesday, one Aisha Usman, a resident of Pompomari ward in Damaturu metropolis, reported to the police that a suspect, Saidu Yusuf, raped his granddaughter.

Also in Ondo State, a 24-year-old farmer has been arraigned at an Akure Magistrates’ Court for allegedly raping a 50-year-old grandmother. The suspect, Haruna Mohammed, was arraigned by the police on a one-count charge of rape.
 
It was gathered that Haruna allegedly had carnal knowledge of the victim identified as Ibukun Akinlo forcefully on July 8, 2020, on the Lalepa-Akinfosile Road at Igbotako axis of Ondo.
 
According to the police prosecutor, Inspector Augustine Omhenimhen, the offence is punishable under Section 358 of the Criminal Code CAP 37 Volume 1 Laws of Ondo State of Nigeria 2006. The plea of Haruna was not taken. Presiding Magistrate, Rasheedat Yakubu, ordered that the suspect be remanded in the custody of the State Criminal Investigation Department pending legal advice from the Department of Public Prosecution (DPP).

Meanwhile, an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court yesterday sentenced one Emmanuel Idoko, a 37-year-old commercial motorcyclist, to 20 years of imprisonment for sexually assaulting his 12-year-old daughter.
   
Justice Sybil Nwaka, while delivering judgment on the charge of sexual assault by penetration against Idoko, said the prosecution provided ingredients necessary to prove its case.
 
“The defendant is found guilty of the charge of sexual assault by penetration contrary to Section 261 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015. He is hereby sentenced to 20-year imprisonment,” the judge said.
 
The prosecutor, Mr Babajide Boye, while presenting the case, had earlier told the court that Idoko committed the offence between July and November 2017 at his residence in Oworoshoki, Lagos.
 
According Boye, the accused sexually assaulted his 12-year-old daughter (name withheld) by penetrating her vagina using his finger. Also, Dr Oyedeji Alagbe, a medical doctor and a consultant with the Mirabel Centre (a sexual assault referral centre), while testifying for the prosecution narrated what the complainant revealed to him when he examined her.
 

In another development, a lady (name withheld) has reportedly been gang-raped by five members of the dreaded ‘One Million Boys’ in Ogijo area of Ogun State. The victim said she met one of the culprits simply known as ‘Enny Money,’ who gave her an app to download on her phone with an assurance that those she would meet through that app would help her financially.
 
She stated that as soon as she concluded the downloading, one man whom she later knew to be the same Enny Money, started chatting her and later invited her to Idimogun area of Ogijo. On getting there on July 23, she was lured into a house where she was subsequently gang-raped by five men who called themselves members of One Million Boys.
 
The gang, according to the victim, forced her to submission at gunpoint, while they took turns to rape her, and one of them did the video recording of the action with his phone.
 
She later reported the incident at the Ogijo Police Division. Upon receipt of the report, according to a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer of the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, the DPO Ogijo Division, CSP Muhammed Baba Suleiman, dispatched his detectives to go after the hoodlums and bring them to justice. 

He said the Commissioner of Police, CP Edward Ajogun, has ordered the transfer of the suspect to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for in-depth investigation and equally directed that the remaining members of the gang be hunted for and brought to justice.