is is
outrageous!
71-years-
old ex-
convict
defiled a
7-years-
old girl
and other
infants while their parents refused to report the
crime to the police out of fear. Parents, please....if
you can't report child abuse because of fear, you
should report it because of love.
According to Vanguard,
The people of Akure, Ondo State capital were
shocked last week when, a 71-year- old night
guard/hunter, Alhaji Ganiyu Kolawole lured a 7-
year-old girl, Taye Juliana with a biscuit into his
ramshackle room and raped her in broad daylight.
Sources said the suspect who is cooling his feet in
the custody of the State Command of Nigeria
Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, had,
within the space of two years after returning from
jail for rape, raped no fewer than five children in the
area.
Parents of his victims, mostly illiterates, reportedly
kept it to themselves without reporting to security
operatives not wanting to send him back to jail.
Taye, a primary one pupil of St. Paul Annex Primary
School, Oba-Ile, in Akure was defiled at the
residence of the suspect at Mission Road, Ayetoro
Street, Oba-Ile.
It was gathered that the suspect who lives alone
has turned his dilapidated house where he
committed the ungodly act into a destroying hurt for
small girls.
A native of Benue state, the suspect threatened to
deal with parents of his victims if they mention his
sinful exploits to the police. He was even said to
have settled them with bush meat.
Many of his neighbours described him as a terror in
the area stating that they relate with him in fear.
It was gathered that the unsuspecting girl who left
home that ill-fated day without breakfast, was told
by the mother to come during break for her food.
Reports said when she was returning home, the
suspect lured her into his house with a promise to
give her biscuit and cold water.
Giving a graphic account of how the incident took
place,the image maker of the NSCDC, Kayode
Balogun stated that the suspect acted the script
with another accomplice,now at large, by asking the
girl what she wanted and promised to give her not
only cold water but biscuits. Balogun said that while
the girl was still trying to think about what the Alhaji
had promised her, the other accomplice reportedly
pushed her inside the house while the Alhaji carried
her and covered her mouth when she started
shouting.
It was learnt that after the Alhaji was through with
defiling the girl, he cleaned her up with a cloth as
she was bleeding. “When Alhaji was interviewed, he
said the girl approached him to buy her biscuit as
she was hungry and he did. He denied raping her.
During investigation, it was discovered that the
suspect is a serial rapist who had been jailed before
for raping another girl in the community.
“When officers of the corps went to the house of the
accused (Oba-Ile) for investigation,inhabitants of
the area testified that the man was fond of raping
children, and had been jailed before for raping a
particular girl in that area. So, after the matter was
reported to the agency, the girl was taken to
General Hospital where it was confirmed she had
been raped.”
Crime Guard gathered that the girl whose father died
few years ago lives with her mother in a one-room
apartment in Oba-ile area of the state.
Narrating her own side of the ugly incident, mother
of Taye, Mrs Mary Mike who is into laundry
business said, “That day, I had no money to feed
my four children.
I told them to come back to the house during their
break period when I would have made some Eba for
them. I was sitting in front of the house waiting for
my children to come back when one of my
neighbours from the market said she saw my
daughter coming out from the house of the man.
“By the time I got to the man’s house, I did not find
my girl. I then rushed to her school where I met her
and her teacher who was asking her question. My
daughter was crying and was pointing at her private
part and by the time we checked her private part,
she was bleeding. I asked her what happened and
she said a man carried her inside his house and
slept on top of her.
“I started crying and people said I should report it to
the Civil Defense who would not compromise. It was
the officers of the Civil Defense that followed me to
his house where he was arrested.”
Mrs Mike said that her husband who is a friend to
the suspect died two years ago,adding that he was
also a hunter who usually go hunting with the
suspect when he was alive. She further said she
decided to report the matter because the suspect
has been committing the crime and those
concerned have, out of fear, failed to inform security
operatives noting that this will not only check the
hunter’s excesses but make him stop committing
the heinous crime against little girls in the area.
Such monsters should not be allowed to live among
humans.
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