The operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of Lagos State
Police Command have apprehended a tricycle rider, popularly
called, "Keke Marwa", for allegedly abducting a 15 - year old girl
and turning her into sex slave.
The suspect, Dada Azeez, 28, abducted Bukunmi on October 5
while on errand for her aunt in Agege area before the RRS
operatives rescued her on October 21th, 2016 from his hideout
in Agege.
The alleged abduction of the girl was disclosed by her sister,
Mrs Gbemisola, who stated that the girl was abducted with a
sum of N58,000:00 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 know.
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 will 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", he
revealed.
Narrating her ordeal, Bukunmi 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 said that the suspect collected the N58,000:00 her sister
gave her. "He fed me thrice a day probably from that thrift
contribution money", she added.
The victim, who looked pale when he was arrested, 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, stressing, “he left my place the following day to
somewhere else. I regretted allowing them to pass the night in
my place".
In her reaction, sister of the abducted girl, who was so elated
upon seeing her niece, said that the family will take her to
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 girl.
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