A soldier, attached to Operation Burst set up by Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, has been arrested for raping a female student while on duty.
A 23 year old student of Mass Communication Department, Ibarapa Polytechnic, is currently seeking justice after being raped repeatedly for five hours by the randy Nigerian Soldier.
According to the victim, she was returning after seeing off a friend, when the soldier allegedly ordered her to climb the motorcycle and threatened to stab her with a knife.
In her statement to the police, she said: “It happened on Friday, August 29, 2014. I was coming back to my room after seeing off a friend. He accused me of being a cultist for moving about around that time, but I denied it. He then ordered me to climb his motorcycle, but I pleaded with him that he should let me go.
He removed a knife and said that he would stab me if I refused to obey him. So scared, I climbed the Okada and he took me to the Operation Burst office in Eruwa. When we got there, he forcefully led me to a dark area under a tree and ordered me to remove my dress to enable him see if I had tattoos on my body.
I told him I did not have tattoos and that he should let me go. He then removed the knife again and said that he would slaughter me like a ram if I failed to ‘cooperate’ and that I would be buried like many other girls who had failed to cooperate in the past, and nobody would trace my death to him. Sensing danger, I removed my clothes. He ordered me to lie down under the tree and had sex with me several times while I was crying.
He raped me till 3.30 am and I complained of catching cold. He entered into the office and brought out a bottle of beer. He gave it to me to hold for him. Later he said he was going to bring a blanket for me to cover my body. I waited for about 30 minutes, but when he did not return, I dressed up and ran away.”
Responding, Special Adviser to the Governor on Media, Dr. Festus Adedayo, revealed that the soldier in question has been arrested.
“Immediately the outfit was informed of the allegation of rape against the said soldier, he dispatched an investigation team to Eruwa. The soldier will, be charged for abandoning his duty post in the night without permission against standing instructions in the Operation Burst’s code of conduct,” he said.
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