Juliana Francis
A suspect, Godwin David, who used to prowl social
media dating sites to lure ladies to hotel, before drugging and raping them,
has been arrested.
The 25-year-old suspect was arrested by operatives
of the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team (IRT),
led by a Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr. Abba Kyari.
David was arrested at the Federal Capital Territory.
Police said that the suspect has been in the business of luring women he
interacted with on social media dating sites to hotels in Abuja, before
pouncing on them.
A police source said: “His modus operandi is to
invite them to any hotel of his choice. When they arrive, he would offer then
drinks, which he would lace with a sleep inducing drug. When his victim sleeps
off, he would rape, steal her mobile phones, cash and other valuable and then
disappear.”
The police source further disclosed that, David ran
into stormy waters after a 26-year-old woman, who he met on a social media
dating site and invited to a hotel in Yanyah area of the FCT, reported him to
IRT Unit.
A source said: “The suspect met the woman on a
social media and opened a conversation with her. He later invited her to a
hotel. She only accepted to meet him at the hotel after he agreed to pay her
the sum of N15, 000 per night. But a few minute into their lodging in the hotel,
David drugged her drink, and while she was asleep, he stole the sum of N25, 000
in her purse. He also stole her mobile phone valued at N125, 000, after which
he disconnected the hotel room intercom and bolted.”
When the woman woke and discovered what had happened
to her, she reported the matter to the police. She was advised to calm down.
IRT operatives, who were instructed the case, got the name of the dating site
and went undercover to pose as females. They uploaded pictures and profiles of women,
indicating that they were interested in men resident in Abuja. It was only a
matter of time one of the profiles catches their target.
After weeks of prowling the site, David connected to
one of the undercover operatives’ profile, using the same modus operandi that
he had used for his previous preys.
He invited the operatives to a hotel and also gave
them a room number. He was relaxing in his room, waiting for his supposed new
prey, when the IRT operatives knocked, walked in and arrested him.
While fielding questions from the operatives, David
explained that he went into the business of drugging and stealing from women
because he couldn’t secure a decent job.
He disclosed that he uses an illicit drug known as Rohypnol,
to sedate his victim. David led the operatives to Gwagalada area of Abuja where
the drug peddler selling the drugs for him was arrested.
David said: “I have no job. I was formerly working
at Gwagalada area council as a seals boy; but I lost my job in April 2019. While I was still working, I met one Musa who
introduced me to drugs. I started using Rohypnol for sleeping. When I lost my
job I visited a dating site known as In-massage. It was there I met some ladies
and decided to start luring them to hotels, where I drugged and robbed them. I
met a lady that resides at Area 8 Abuja, and I lied to her that I reside in Yanyah.
We bargained for N15, 000 and she came to meet me in a hotel at Yanyah. I
bought her Indian hemp, and then I also bought bitters drink for her, which I laced
with Rohypnol. A few minutes later, she slept off. I stole her two phones and
the sum of N25, 000. This incident happened in June 26, 2016. I reformatted the
phones and then went to Musa, who introduced me to the drug; I sold the phones
to him and spent the money. In July, I also met another lady, who I lured to Yanyah,
but at a different hotel, but unknown to me she was a sister to the lady, who I
had robbed previously. But while I was about robbing her, I was arrested. I also didn’t know that the lady I robbed
first had reported me to the IRT. They were around the hotel; when I took the
girl into the room, they arrested me.”
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