Two of the eight robbers who accosted a
couple and their three months old baby on
their way to their village in Kogi have been
arrested and will soon be prosecuted. The
robbers were eight in number and after
robbing them of their cash and valuables at
gunpoint; they tied the husband to a tree and
r*ped his wife until she fainted in his presence.
The eight of them took turns in r*ping her until she
fainted before escaping with their car and
valuables. As God will have it; two of the robbers
were later apprehended while trying to escape
from the scene of the crime. Here’s how The Sun
puts it;
Tears flowed freely as people beheld the
pathetic sight of a middle-aged nursing
mother whose three-month old baby was
thrown into the bush while an eight-man
gang of devilish souls r*ped her to a point
of unconsciousness right in the presence
of her husband.
The woman (names with held) who had
bruises all over her body especially in the
waist region could barely stand unaided
when she was sighted at the headquarters
of the Kogi State Police Command.
Sunday Sun gathered that the suspects
waylaid the couple on their way to the
village, and dispossessed the husband and
wife of their cash and valuables at
gunpoint. Then they took them in the
family car to a nearby bush where they
tied the husband and raped the wife who
was at that time breast feeding her three-
month-old baby.
It was learnt that one of the armed
robbers on getting to the bush slapped
the wife and forcibly took the baby away
from her hands and threw the baby aside.
He pointed a gun to her head and ordered
her to undress.
For more than two hours, the eight
robbers, one after the other, thereafter
engaged the poor woman in a marathon
s*x while the husband watched helplessly
and the hapless innocent baby cried
profusely.
Parading the suspects before newsmen,
the Acting Commissioner of Police, Mr
Abiodun Odude said the family was
travelling from Ogugu in Olamaboro Local
Government Area, Kogi State to Iga-Ikeje
when the robbers accosted them.
Odude said the victim (names withheld) a
native of Ogugu reported at the
Olamaboro Police Division and stated that
he was travelling in his Toyota Corolla car
with his wife and baby when suddenly
some eight armed robbers accosted them,
dispossessing them of their car, N6600
cash and mobile phone sets.
The alleged robbers then bundled them
into the vehicle and drove them inside the
bush about two kilometres from the road,
where the man was tied to a tree prior to
r*ping the wife. Giving further
explanation of what transpired, he said
the wife who was oblivious of their plan
as she was crying and begging them not to
kill her husband. This prompted one of
the robbers to give her a vicious slap,
took the baby away and ordered her to
undress, while pointing a gun to her head.
He said the woman fainted after the
ordeal.
Done with their evil business, they sons-
of-the devil tied up the woman’s legs and
drove away in the car.
After about 40 minutes, the woman
regained consciousness, struggled to free
herself and walked to a nearby village,
where she informed a group of vigilantes,
who later rescued the husband.
On receiving the report, a police patrol
team led by Mr. Mbang Eteng, an
Assistant Superintendent of Police tracked
down and arrested two of the robbers,
whose names were given as Vincent
Oguche from an uncompleted building,
and Femi Simon, who attempted to run
away, but was overpowered by policemen
and both of them taken into custody.
The police said the two suspects in the
course of interrogation confessed to the
crime and thereafter led the detectives to
their hideout, where the stolen car,
assorted guns and handsets were
recovered. The names of two other
members of the gang were given as Friday
Oguche and Joe Agbo. The police are still
on the trail of the remaining four mem
bers who are still at large.
Vincent Oguche while acknowledging that
he and the others actually committed the
heinous crime, explained why they r*ped
the woman despite that she was nursing a
baby, saying: “We were not in our right
sense because we were very high on
drugs.”
Femi Simon who claimed to be a native of
Iyah Gbede in Ijumu Local Government
Area of the state said he was an
unemployed driver who was conscripted
into the deal. He said he could not control
his libido when he saw his comrades-in-
crime ‘enjoying themselves’ so he had to
join them to have a taste of the woman.
The police rebuffed the request to speak
with the woman, firmly saying she should
be left alone on account of the
horrendous ordeal she experienced.
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