While travelling to their village for the weekend, a middle
aged nursing mother, her three months old baby and husband had an unpleasant
encounter with an eight-man gang a few days ago in Kogi state.
The eight man gang dispossessed them of their cash and valuables
at gunpoint, 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.
Parading the suspects before newsmen, the Acting
Commissioner of Police, Kogi state, 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 raping 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.
In response to her pleas, one of the robbers gave 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 – they took turns
in raping her in the presence of her helpless husband.
Done with their evil business, they tied up her 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.
Vincent Oguche while acknowledging that he and the others
actually committed the heinous crime, explained why they raped the woman
despite that she was nursing a baby, saying: “We were not in our right sense
because we were very high on drugs.”
The other suspect 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 are still on the trail of the remaining four
members who are still at large.
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