Sheer controversy has trailed the allegations of a lady, who claimed that a man kidnapped and raped her and subsequently impregnated her, leading to the birth of a physically challenged baby girl
The lady, Modupe Brown, 30, said that she was kidnapped by Idowu Ajibola, 37, and held hostage for over three years. She said she could have ran away from where she was being held, but that she continued to stay with Ajibola under the influence of black magic (juju).
She said: “I met him on the day that I came home from school to collect money for my project. He said he would kill me if I didn’t go with him. He ordered me, in an authoritative voice to go and pack my clothes, shoes and pictures and follow him. He took me somewhere, went inside a building and asked me to wait for him. After some minutes, he came out with a prophet. The prophet said I should go and pack my clothes and pictures and go with him (suspect) or I will die within seven days.”
Strangely enough, Modupe went home again as instructed by the prophet, packed the essentials and started living with Ajibola. It never crossed her mind to alert the police. It is also unclear at what point she was hypnotised. Incidentally, the duo rented the apartment from the money Modupe said Ajibola took from her.
Modupe said she was locked up and was not even allowed to go to hospital to have her baby. Neither was she allowed to take the baby to hospital for immunisation.
Ajibola said: “I didn’t collect any money from her, neither did I hypnotised her. She is my girl friend. She was the person who came up with the plan that we should run away. This thing started after she told me that her mother didn’t want her to marry. She said she wanted to leave her home at all cost. I told her that I didn’t have money to marry anybody. She brought that money and paid it into my bank account. She even collected my ATM card. To show that I’m not lying, let police go to the bank branch where she used to collect the money with my ATM card, the CCTV will show her collecting the money several times.”
According to the police, before Brown could be rescued by the police, she had already been sexually assaulted by Ajibola, impregnated and had a baby girl.
The suspect was a tenant in the compound of the victim’s parents and when the girl disappeared, Ajibola was among sympathisers who went with them to hospitals, mortuaries, churches and police stations in search of their missing daughter. They were shocked to later discover that Ajibola was the person allegedly holding their daughter hostage.
Ajibola however defended his action: “It was Dupe who said I should not allow her parents to know where she was. She threatened to kill herself if I revealed her whereabouts to them. But she had been texting and calling them later.”
Narrating the genesis of the whole drama, the Deputy Police spokesman, Ozoani Damasus said: “A 400level student of Business Administration, at the Lagos State University, Modupe, was kidnapped nu Jibola and kept in captivity and incommunicado with the family for three years. That is 2010 to2013. On September 19, 2013, about 10am, based on information, the Area Commander, an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Mr. Dan Okoro sent decoy detectives from Area E Command Headquarters, Festac Town to the flash point, Shagamu, Ogun State to rescue the victim from the hide out and consequently arrested one Ebun Idowu, mother of the abductor who watched over the victim.
“The abductor/kidnapper was thereafter arrested at Idumota Lagos Island on a tip-off. The suspect cunningly camped the victim at three different locations during the period of the incarceration. She was camped at Oshogbo in Osun State for six months, at Bariga area of Lagos for another six months and Shagamu in Ogun State for over two years.”
Damasus further explained that Ajibola, a primary school dropout, forcefully impregnated the victim, while she was in his captive and had a disabled baby girl with neck and leg deformities as a result of the abductor’s refusal to have the baby immunised against polio virus.
“The parents of the victim, Mr and Mrs Brown, who are retired civil servants, were thrown into psychological trauma for three years when they were visiting hospitals and mortuary, churches and police stations in search of their daughter but all to no avail.”
Okoro, who worked with his men to ensure that Modupe was rescued, explained that when they first sighted Modupe, she was a horrible sight to behold.
“She was a mess. There were incisions on her body. She had charms on her waist and neck. She looked pale and sick,” recalled Okoro. “ She was locked up and not allowed to make calls. The suspect is a tenant in the house of the girl’s parents and for three years, he didn’t tell them that he knew where the girl was. He hypnotised her and took the N200, 000 given to her by her parents. He took the money and used it to rent an apartment.”
Asked why she never attempted to run away for those three years, Modupe said: “I was not alone, his mother watched over me. I couldn’t run.”
Ajibola’s mother, who was arrested along with her son, said Modupe was lying through her teeth.
She said: “I was in north when they started dating. I first got to know about her after Ajibola’s younger brother called me that there was a girl in their flat. That she came with her luggage, that Ajibola gave her address and told her to go there and stay. When my daughter who lives at Bariga gave birth, I came over from north to see her and the baby. I was there when Modupe came with her luggage to meet us there. Nobody invited her. I was shocked myself. The house was my daughter’s husband’s home. Modupe’s stay in that house caused quarrel between my daughter and her husband. When Modupe got pregnant and had her baby, I went to stay with her because her breasts were not bringing forth milk and the new baby needed to feed.”
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