A piece of sad
news reaching us indicates that an 11-year-old girl has been
gang-raped to death in Lagos, Nigeria.
According to the
details gathered by OccupyGh.com, the deceased, Favour Okechukwu, was a JHS
student in a local school in Lagos. She was reportedly sent on an errand around
3 pm by her mother when the sad incident happened.
She was said to
have been lured into a building on Olarewaju street, where four men gang-raped
her. She was suspected to have been gaged in the process, apparently to avoid
raising that alarm.
Favour’s corpse
was found in a building on Olarewaju street, not too far from her parents,
close to two hours into the search.
On closer
observation, she was discovered to be naked, with her body stained with blood.
The father who
managed to speak narrated how he found her corpse.
According to him,
” I was shocked when my wife said Favour hadn’t returned from where she was to
collect a carton of the gala(snack) because it was unusual for her to stay long
outside. I went to three of her classmate’s houses to look for her but they all
said they didn’t see her. I was walking like a mad man, asking everyone I saw
about her whereabout and it was getting dark.
” I saw a man who
lives on the same street with me and told him I was looking for my daughter. He
informed that he had to close early because a little girl was raped to death in
a building close to his shop.
” I decided to go
and check since I was looking for my daughter and he accompanied me to the
building. Behold, when I got there, it was my daughter, Favour! She laid
motionless. I shouted, shook her vigorously as I called out her name, begging
her to wake up. But she didn’t respond. I was too shocked to believe she was
gone just like that. A child I left hale and hearty while leaving the house in
the morning, was gone when I returned”, he said in tears.
He, therefore, appealed to anyone with information on the
fleeing assailants to avail such to the police, in order for her to get
justice.
Lamenting, he said: ” Favour was
full of life. She was very brilliant. All I want is for the perpetrators of
this devilish act to be brought to book”.
Already, occupants of the
buildings had fled for fear of being arrested by the Police.
It was learnt that policemen from
Ejigbo division, led by the Divisional Police Officer, CSP Olabisi Okuwobi,
arrived the scene when information reached them. While the DPO paid for the
ambulance that took the corpse to the morgue.
Some suspects had already been
arrested. But they denied culpability. They were said to have been transferred
to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba, for further
investigation.
A spokesman for the Lagos State
Police Command, SP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, who confirmed the incident, assured that
the command would do all within its reach to ensure that the fleeing suspects
were arrested.
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