A man named Tahiru Hamidu has been placed under arrest by the Ogun State Police Command on suspicion of having illicit sex with a mentally ill married woman (name withheld) in the Owode community, which is part of the state’s Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area.
The spokesperson for the state police command, Omolola Odutola, confirmed the arrest to our correspondent on Tuesday.
The suspect allegedly took advantage of the survivor’s condition to have multiple non-consensual sex encounters before he was captured on September 12, 2024, by the men of the Owode Egba Division.
Additionally, the suspect was charged with threatening to kill the survivor’s brother-in-law, Shofolahan, if he did not consent to him continuing to rape his brother’s wife.
The survivor was allegedly lured to a cassava plantation by Hamidu, a suspect from Northern Nigeria, who then allegedly raped her several times before releasing her.
Odutola said, “The survivor is mentally incapacitated. The brother-in-law who reported the case claims that the suspect threatened to kill him to prevent him from stopping the crimes. The suspect is accused of repeatedly engaging in sexual acts with the survivor.
“The suspect is also accused of luring the survivor to a cassava plantation in the community, where he allegedly engaged in non-consensual sexual intercourse with her repeatedly.
“He began threatening the brother-in-law, warning him to stop preventing him from having sexual intercourse with the survivor and demanding that he hand her over to him.”
Odutola added that the investigation into the crime was ongoing following the suspect’s arrest.
Published by Ejoh Caleb
