The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a man called Tahiru Hamidu for allegedly indulging in illicit sexual intercourse with a mentally unstable married lady (name withheld) in the Owode village, located in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of the state.
Omolola Odutola, the state police command’s spokesperson, disclosed this on Tuesday that the arrest had been made.
Before being captured by the men of the Owode Egba Division on September 12, 2024, it was discovered that the suspect had repeatedly taken advantage of the survivor’s condition to have non-consensual sex.
Additionally, the suspect was accused of threatening to kill the survivor’s brother-in-law known as Shofolahan, if he did not consent to him continuing to rape his brother’s wife.
The survivor was allegedly lured to a cassava farm by Hamidu, a suspect from Northern Nigeria, who then allegedly raped her many times before releasing her.
Odutola said, “The survivor is mentally incapacitated. The brother-in-law who reported the case claims that the suspect threatened to kill him to prevent him from stopping the crimes. The suspect is accused of repeatedly engaging in sexual acts with the survivor.
“The suspect is also accused of luring the survivor to a cassava plantation in the community, where he allegedly engaged in non-consensual sexual intercourse with her repeatedly.
“He began threatening the brother-in-law, warning him to stop preventing him from having sexual intercourse with the survivor and demanding that he hand her over to him.”
Odutola stated that even after the suspect was apprehended, the investigation into the incident was still ongoing.
A similar incident was reported in March 2024, when Usman Bube, a 26-year-old man was taken into custody in the Ogatalo Fulani Camp in the Imala district of the state on charges of reportedly attempting to rape the pregnant neighbour’s wife.
The defendant reportedly pulled out a knife in an attempt to intimidate and subdue the victim after his repeated attempts to forcefully engage in illicit sexual activity with her failed.
Before he could succeed, he was caught by other neighbours.
