Officials attached to Lagos State Police command have arrested two men who allegedly raped, a job-seeker identified only as Nike and robbed her of her valuables before taking nude photos of her which they threatened to share online.
The duo who are both undergraduates identified only as Valentine from Imo State and Kusimo, committed the act on Idowu Ibiyemi Street in the Igando area of Lagos State on Thursday, January 14, 2016.
It was gathered that the suspects allegedly lured the 27-year-old victim who they met on a dating site, to a hotel where they took turns to forcefully have carnal knowledge of her before Valentine, tried to see her off, according to Punch.
Nike is based in Ibadan, was said to have raised the alarm which drew the attention of passersby, who she narrated her ordeal to leading to the arrest of both suspects after the police were informed.
Narrating the incident, a police source said: “Valentine is a 400-level Civil Engineering student of a university in Imo State. He chatted up the lady on the dating site and from there, their conversation shifted to Whatsapp, a mobile messaging application.
“The suspect told his friend, Kusimo, about the girl and they decided to trick her. Kusimo, a student of a polytechnic in Ogun State, would sometimes take Valentine’s phone and be chatting with Nike, without the girl knowing that it was Kusimo.
“Having done that for some days, they decided to invite her to Lagos.
“The girl did not know she was taken to a hotel because he took her through the back into the room. The second suspect, had, however, hid inside the toilet.
“As the lady entered the room, Valentine shut the door and Kusimo jumped out from his hideout with a bottle. He smashed the bottle on the ground and he told the girl to cooperate or they would kill her.
“While Valentine had two rounds, the second suspect had three rounds of sex with her. After they had raped her, they robbed her of her BlackBerry and N15, 000.
“In order to prevent her from exposing them, they took snapshots of her nakedness and threatened that if she told anyone about her ordeal, they would put the pictures on the Internet.”
However, a second police source claimed the victim agreed to mutual sex with them and only raised the alarm because she was not paid well.
“How can you leave your place in Ibadan for Lagos and claim not to know what you are doing? It is not true that they raped her. She only wanted to make money off the men, and that was why she raised the alarm outside.
“The suspect said she demanded N200, 000 for settlement and she is saying she does not want her fiancé and family members to be aware. She is not innocent,” the source said.
The case has been transferred to the State Department of Criminal Investigation, Yaba after the suspects were detained.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Dolapo Badmus, who confirmed the incident said the police had charged both suspects to court.
