A 21-year-old student has been hospitalised,
after she was allegedly pushed down from the third floor of a building in
Lagos, following a disagreement with a man she met on the social network,
Facebook.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that
Akabugu Nkiruka sustained multiple injuries, including a pelvis fracture, and
was undergoing surgery at the General Hospital, Marina, Lagos, on Tuesday.
Nkiruka, a Linguistics student of the University
of Lagos, told NAN on her hospital bed that she met the young man
through the social media, barely a week before the November 1 incident.
She told NAN that the 26-year-old man
(name withheld) last Wednesday invited her to a night club in Apapa from where
they ended up in his family home at 1004 Estate, Victoria Island, Lagos.
She noted that the young man had earlier talked
about sex on the phone prior to the outing but she told him she was
menstruating.
Nkiruka said on getting to the house, the man
tore her dress and tried to rape her.
According to Nkiruka, the man thereafter pushed
her down from the third floor of the building because she refused to have sex
with him.
When contacted, the man’s mother, who was at home
on the night of the incident, however, told NAN that she was not aware
of what happened.
She said she slept around 10pm, while the
disagreement between the couple started much later.
The mother, who pleaded anonymity, said she paid
part of the hospital bill immediately after Nkiruka was admitted, and even
tried to transfer her to a private hospital.
“I took her as our own daughter and so, I can do
anything that will make her recover quickly,’’ she added.
She insisted that her preliminary inquiry
indicated that Nkiruka was not pushed by her son as alleged, but that she
jumped on her own in the ensuing scuffle.
When contacted, the Divisional Police Officer of
Bar Beach, Victoria Island, Lagos, Mr. Fayoade Adegoke, told NAN that
Nkiruka wrote in her statement that she jumped on her own, in order to escape
being raped.
Adegoke said he ordered his men to convey the
victim to the hospital immediately after he was informed of the incident by
security guards in the area.
The DPO said the suspect was released on bail,
pending further investigation into the matter.
NAN recalls that seven young men,
including two who met a 24-year-old post-graduate student, Cynthia Osokogu, on
facebook, are currently facing trial for allegedly raping and killing her in
Lagos earlier this year.
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