The operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of Lagos State Police
Command have apprehended a tricycle operator, popularly called, “Keke
Marwa”, for allegedly abducting a 15-year old girl and turning her to a
sex slave.The suspect, Dada Azeez, 28, had abducted Kabirat on
October 5 while on errand for her aunt in Agege area before the RRS
operatives rescued her on October 21th, 2016 from his den in the same
Agege area of the state..
The alleged abduction of the girl was
disclosed by her sister, Mrs Gbemisola, who disclosed that the girl was
abducted with a sum of N58,000 meant for her thrift contribution.
The suspect, after weeks of lodging in several locations to evade
arrest, was eventually nabbed by the operatives at his residence at 7,
Oseni Street, Danjuma Cinema area, Agege with the girl in his one room
apartment.
Confessing to the crime, the suspect disclosed that he wooed the girl when she was 14 years old at her sister’ shop in Agege.
“We started having secret affair about a year ago. But her sister frowned at our relationship when she got to knows” he claimed.
He continued: “Unknown to her, we were still seeing each other. In order
to be having regular conversation with her, I bought a mobile phone for
her and instructed her to hide it from her sister. So, whenever she
intended coming to meet me, she would call and I will describe our
meeting point for her”.He added: “Then I thought if she could elope with me that would be
better for us. I started working on her psyche and deceiving her with
some material things.“I was able to perpetrate the crime when her sister sent her on errand
on one Sunday afternoon. However, I didn’t know she was with such amount
of money. I just wanted to take her far away from her guardian for not
supporting our relationship.”
Narrating her ordeal, Ibukun(not real name) noted that the suspect
forcefully deflowered her, adding that, he turned her to a sex slave.
According to her,” he forced himself on me the very first day I visited
him at his residence. Ever since, he has been having sex with me without
wearing condom”.“He slept with me anywhere and even at his friends’ place where he hid
me for weeks. I succumbed to him because I couldn’t go back home” she
added.She said that the suspect collected the N58,000 her sister gave her. “He
fed me thrice a day probably from that thrift contribution money”, she
added.
The victim, who looked pale when she was rescued, said that, she eloped with him out of ignorance.
Also arrested along with him, was one of his friends, Wasiu Agunbiade,
who aided the abduction by accommodating the suspect and the teenager in
his one-room apartment in Agege.
He said that he only accommodated them for a night, adding that he never knew he abducted the little girl.
“If I had known the girl was abducted, I would have advised him to
return her to her parents. I never believed he could commit such crime.
He begged me to accommodate them for one night with her in my room. He
left my place the following day to somewhere else. I regretted allowing
them to pass the night in my place.”
In her reaction, the sister of the abducted girl, who was so elated upon
seeing her niece, said that the family would take her to the hospital
for medical check-up.
While confirming the incident, the State Police Public Relations Officer
(PPRO) Superintendent of Police, SP Dolapo Badmus, warned parents and
guardians against exposing their wards and children to social vices
around their environment.
The suspect, friend and the abducted girl have been transferred to the
Divisional Police Office in Agege where the case was initially reported
before RRS operatives took it up and rescued the victim.