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The Lagos State Police Command has arrested
an Islamic Cleric, Mustapha Ahmed, for allegedly raping a student of Federal College
of Education (Technical), Akoka, Yaba, under the guise of spiritual cleansing.
The lady became a victim of the 23-year-old
suspect, after he told her that she would be dead within 24 hours, if she was
not cleansed of the spiritual husband that had been bedeviling her.
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr
Edgal Imohimi, said that Islamic cleric deceived the victim that he saw a
vision that she would die within the next 24 hours.
Edgal said: “The victim decided to do the
spiritual cleansing after the cleric told her that she had to do it, if she
wanted to stay alive. It was in the process carrying out the cleansing
that he took her to Ikorodu from Bariga, where he had canal knowledge of
her. Incidentally, the victim was a virgin. He thereafter, allegedly wiped off
her blood with a white handkerchief.
According to her father, since the incident, the lady had been behaving
abnormally because she was completely devastated and traumatized by the
incident.”
Ahmed, who admitted to the crime, blamed the
act on the devil. He explained that his girlfriend, who is the victim’s
friend, brought her to him for consultation.
His words: "I liked her when my
girlfriend brought her to me for consultation. So, I called her later that I
saw a vision for her, and in the vision, her spiritual husband was disturbing
her. I told her that the only way she could come out of the problem was for me
to cleanse her. I told her that we would have to go to a river at Ikorodu for
the cleansing.
"When we got to Ikorodu, I instructed
her to bathe and pray three times each. She bathed the first time and prayed.
The second time, I secretly put a live frog in her water. When she saw the
frog, she ran out and told me there was a frog in her water. I then told her,
that the frog was a bad omen and that the only solution was for a man to sleep
with her. When I told her about a man sleeping with her, I advise her to call her
boyfriend. When she called him, the boyfriend said he was far away.”
Determined to have her at all cost, Ahmed
pressured her on the urgency of the issue. Scared out of her wits, the victim
suggested that Ahmed should have sex with her in order to save her life.
Ahmed said: “That was why I slept with her.
But I didn’t wipe the blood from her private with any handkerchief.”
On why he sexually violated the victim, Ahmed
replied: “I love the lady, but didn’t know how to tell her. The victim is my
girlfriend’s friend. I couldn’t tell her I love her.”
Imohimi called on parents to be more vigilant,
adding that it was important for guardians to monitor their female children so
that they wouldn’t into the hands of predators.
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