The Lagos
State Police command have arrested a young man who kidnapped a female
undergraduate of the University of Lagos State, Akoka, stripped her naked and
beat her black blue for refusing to date him.
The suspect,
identified as Babajide Bashorun, 22, a dog breeder, did not only stripped and
beat the 22-year-old girl, but also raped and took snaps shot of her nudity.
Few days
later, the pictures were all over the internet. The picture had the name and
surname of the girl, her university, age, department and course of study.
Before the
girl knew what was happening, people were stopping her in the campus to tell
her they had seen her nude pictures on the internet.
The tensed
situation finally came to a head after her relations in overseas saw the
pictures and called her parents. It was gathered that the parents broke down
and wept.
Bashorun had
since been arrested by detectives at t
he Adeniji Adele Police Station.
The
detectives are however hunting for two undergraduates of the University of
Lagos, Akoka, identified as Aje Mayowa, 400level, studying Architecture and his
partner, one Babajide Ademuyiwa, also 400level, Architecture student, for their
complicity in the crime.
According to
Bashorun, after he took the snap shots of the girl, he sent them to Mayowa, who
sent it to Ademuyiwa. Ademuyiwa made sure the pictures were distributed on the
internet.
Detectives from
Adeniji Adele Police Station are working on the theory that Bashorun told the
duo of Mayowa and Ademuyiwa to distribute the nude pictures on net, but the
suspect insisted that he only sent the pictures to Mayowa, but did not tell anyone
to distribute the pictures on the internet.
Asked why he
sent the pictures to Mayowa, he kept mute.
The drama
started in April 2013, but was blown open June, when a family member called the
girl’s parents from USA.
The girl who
had kept her kidnap, beating and rape subsequently finally opened up to her parents about what
happened in April. The parents had immediately rushed down to Adeniji Adele
Police Station, to report the crime.
Narrating
the incident of how she was kidnapped, the girl said:
“Jide (suspect) came to
our house to treat our dog. He asked for my BB number and phone number. I gave
him because he was friendly and I saw him as a friend. We became friends. Then
he suddenly started calling me. He said he wanted to date me, but I told him
that I already had somebody I was dating. I love this guy that I’m dating. But
Jide kept calling me, saying he wanted to marry me. But he’s not even my type.
He kept monitoring my moment. Even the guy I’m dating does not monitor my
movement that much.
“I deleted
him from my BB and phone. I was returning home for the weekend one day, when a
car drove and blocked me at Idumota bus stop. Jide was in the car. Someone else
was driving. When I saw it was Jide, I hissed and made to walk away. But he
held my hand, dragged me closer and showed me a gun under the waist band of his
trouser.
“He dragged
me into the car and took me to his house. He started beating me and tore my
clothes. He and his friend raped me. As he was beating me, he kept asking me
what was it I wanted that he couldn’t give me.
“He said I
should unlock my phone. My password is my boy friend’s name. He started beating
me again because I used my boy friend’s name as my password. He gave me his
phone to speak to friends. They threatened me. They told me that they were
cultists. They said they would kill me for treating their friend badly. I was
afraid.
“He used
bottle to hit me on my head and forehead. He hit me repeatedly on my back. When he wanted to take my picture, I tried to
cover my face but he started beating me. He took different snap shots of me.
“When he saw
that I was bleeding, he stopped beating me. He started begging me. He said he
was sorry, he didn’t know what came over him. He said he didn’t mean to take
things that far. The second friend, who raped me with him, had since left.
“I laid down
crying. He asked me what I would eat, I said nothing. I told him I was not
hungry. I begged him to allow me call my mother. I wanted my mother badly. I
used to be close to my father, but he was not around. And since he married
another wife, we’ve drifted apart.
“Jide
wouldn’t allow me to call my mother. I begged him to delete my nude pictures
from his phone, but I guessed he didn’t. He used one of his shirts to cover my
body. In the morning, he said he was going to buy some drugs for me.
“After he
left, I tried the door and was surprised to discover it was unlocked. I was
going home for the weekend when he kidnapped me. I had some of my dirty clothes
in my bag. I quickly changed into one of those clothes and ran out of the
apartment.
“The first
person I saw when I got home was my elder brother. When he saw the blood on me,
he shouted and asked what happened to me, I told him that I had an accident.
When my mother saw me, I told her I fought with a fellow female student, who
used to smoke Indian hemp. She wanted to go to school with me but I asked her
how many people had she seen who used to follow their undergraduate children to
school.
“When Jide
discovered I had escaped, he called and threatened me. He said that if I tell
anybody what he had done to me, that he
would kill me. He was a cult member. I didn’t want anything to happen to any
member of my family, thus I didn’t tell my family. As Jide was calling and
threatening me, his friends were also doing the same.”
Bashorun and
his friends would have gotten away with the crime, but for the discovery of the
nude pictures on the internet by family members in USA.
The girl’s
mother said: “When Jide discovered that we now knew of the crime, he called a
family friend, threatening that he and his cult members would come down to our
house and burn it down. It was a terrible that day! We couldn’t sleep. We
embarked on a night vigil.”
Bashorun
also have his defence. According to him, he and the girl had been dating for
long and he had spent a lot of money on her.
He denied beating her in April, insisting that
they only fought, but “I didn’t beat her.”
Explaining
that he was shocked by his arrest and the girl’s claims, he said: “She is my
girl friend. We fought in April and had since settled. I have begged her and
she has forgiven me. What happened in April was that she asked me for money,
that she wanted to buy I Pad. Its cost is about a hundred thousand. She’s
always asking for money. And I always try my best to satisfy her.
“I ran
around to raise the money to buy the I Pad for her. I was able to raise about
N70, 000. She came to my house to collect the money. I started talking to her,
telling her to change her ways. I didn’t like the fact that she was always
going to club, prostituting. We now fought. I used floor mop to hit her on her
back. I now took her pictures. I sent the pictures to my friend, but I didn’t
tell him to distribute the pictures on internet.”
On June 24,
2013, Jide was charged to Tinubu Court 5, Lagos lsland. He was charged on six counts:
kidnapping, rape, conspiracy, and attempt to commit murder, indecent assault,
and assault occasioning harm.
Jide pleaded
not guilty to the charge. He was granted bail with three Sureties, the sum of
N250,000.00 each, with three years tax clearance.
The case was
adjoined to July 10, 2013.
The vehicles are believed to have been stolen from their owners in various parts of the country.
The insurgents are said to have demonstrated a preference for SUVs or 4-wheel drive vehicles as these facilitate their quick escape in the desert area.
On Friday, four members of the sect, including one believed to be very close to the Boko Haram leader, Sheikh Abubakar Shekau, were arrested by the ‘civilian joint task force’ in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.
Saturday Tribune gathered on Friday that three of the sect members were arrested at Galtimari Ward, close to Giwa Barracks, and handed over to the unit along Barracks Road, while the remaining one was arrested at Kawar-Maila, in Shehuri Ward of the state.
One of the task force officials who arrested the fourth sect member on Friday told Saturday Tribune that the suspect would be taken to one of the car wash centres near the Maiduguri zoo so as to make him indentify some other members of his group and also show (the task force) where they keep their guns.
A military source who spoke to Saturday Tribune on Thursday had foreclosed an early restoration of communication facilities in parts of the North currently under state of emergency, saying there were security reports that the terrorists were making efforts to contact one another so that they could regroup.
Also, those hoping that the state of emergency currently in place in the three northern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe will soon be lifted may also have to wait a little longer, as military authorities have declared that they are determined to see the current anti-terrorists clampdown to its logical conclusion.
Saturday Tribune gathered from informed security sources that the detention camps are already overflowing with terrorists captured during the various raids, while the Chief of Defence Staff, Admiral Ola Ibrahim, has set up an assessment team on the development.
The defence headquarters is bothered that the facilities in the detention camps have been overstretched, and has mandated the assessment team to ascertain the level of involvement of the terrorists so that those not deeply involved can be recommended to the Federal Government for amnesty.
Also, it was gathered that the military task force has been given a marching order to either capture or eliminate Shekau, as it is believed that this is the only way to end insurgency in the country.
He recounted how a member of the sect riding a motorcycle in Borno tried to beat a checkpoint but was pursued by troops who shot at him. When the bag he was carrying was searched, a recent recording of Shekau was found in it. When the tape was played, it had the voice of Shekau, the Boko Haram leader, warning the people not to cooperate with the troops, as those who do so would be risking their lives.
The recording was to be posted on Youtube.
The troops also recovered various hand bills that would have been distributed to cause disaffection between the people and the troops.
According to the source, military authorities believe that this particular terrorist is very close to Shekau and would provide useful information about his whereabouts.
Saturday Tribune gathered that various types of activities go on inside the sect’s camps in Sambisa forest, which stretches over 16 kilometres on the outskirts of Borno and lies between Bama and Maiduguri.
According to the source, locally fabricated rocket stands and other equipment were being manufactured in the forest.
One of the bullion vans taken away by the terrorists when Bama prison was attacked was seen in the forest, which the terrorists set ablaze while they were fleeing.
Also, the troops discovered a tailoring factory where the terrorists were sewing fake army uniforms and camouflage and other materials.
Defence spokesman, Brigadier-General Chris Olukolade, said that it was not easy for the insurgents to regroup and that this was why communication in those areas cannot be restored now.
On the involvement of youths in hunting for the sect members, Olukolade said the youth were being watched and controlled, since (their involvement) is a voluntary effort, having experienced the ferocity of the terrorists.


