Vengeful persuasion

Policemen attached to Adeniji Adele division have arrested a 22-year-old man in Lagos who allegedly kidnapped and raped a student of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, Akoka, for turning down his advances.

The suspect, Babajide Bashorun, was also alleged to have taken nude shots of his victim (names withheld) and pasted them on the internet with her real name, school, department and age.

The victim with bruises

But the suspect claimed that the lady was his girlfriend. He admitted to have taken her nude pictures and gave them to his friends whose identities he gave as Aje Mayowa and Babajide Ademuyiwa, both final year students of Architecture also of UNILAG.

The incident, as gathered, occurred two months ago at 1, Ajose Street,  Enu-Owa area of Lagos Island.  But the female undergraduate was silent over the matter until her relations abroad who stumbled on the nude pictures on the internet contacted her mother in Nigeria, last week.

The victim narrated that the incident occurred on her way home from school for a weekend visit. She said that Babajide abducted her at the bus stop, dragged her into a car whose driver was an unknown face. On arrival at the suspect’s place, Babajide started beating her thereafter he and his friend raped her. The victim said that pictures were taken of her while bleeding; she claimed that he continued the beating when she made attempt to cover her face while he was taking the pictures. She escaped when she was left alone in the room; she also couldn’t tell anyone even her family members because Babajide had threatened to kill her if she did.

On his part, Babjide claimed that the undergraduate was his girlfriend, adding that they only had a fight on that fateful day, which had been resolved. He claimed that the victim had requested for money to buy an IPad which cost over N100,000. Because of his love for her, he managed to raise N70,000, insisting that he had advised her to stop some of her attitude which weren’t reasonable .

A fight ensued during the argument and he hit her and then took pictures of her and sent the pictures to his friends although he didn’t tell them to paste the pictures on the internet.

Police sources hinted that efforts were on to arrest Mayowa and Ademuyiwa had been alleged to have pasted the victim’s nude pictures on the internet, while  Babajide had been charged to court  for kidnapping, rape, conspiracy, attempt to commit murder, indecent assault, and assault occasioning harm.