A middle-age woman alleged to
have been serially raped by four men
while in police custody in Abraka, Delta
State, has petitioned the Assistant
Inspector General of Police, Zone 5,
Benin, accusing the Divisional Police
Officer, DPO, and his men of
negligence and failure to protect her.
In the petition by counsel to the
woman, Mr. Ejomasuvwe Efe, alleged
that following a fight between her and
her neighbour, police from Abraka
Police Station came to arrest her
following a complaint from one Mama
Afoke who she had altercation with.
She disclosed that efforts made by her
husband to effect her bail was rebuffed
by the DPO and DCO, who apart from
intimidating and abusing her husband
pushed him out of the police station.
She said: “Shortly after Mr. Isaiah left
the Abraka Police Station, the Police
IPO instructed the Police man at the
counter to take his wife to the police
cell and delivered her into a cell where
there were already two men.
“As soon as the Police locked the gate
to the cell, two young boys came into
the cell where the woman and the
other two mature men were kept, and
immediately they started touching her
indecently despite her protests that
she was a married woman and mother
of five children.
“The boys asked her to keep quiet and
immediately grabbed her by her neck
and gagged her with their hands while
the others held her two hands and
threw her violently on the floor and
started to rape her.
“In the process, she started shouting
but the policemen refused to come to
her aid until she went into a coma. She
only came around the following
morning”.
She added that when she became
conscious, she noticed that her
husband was inside the cell opposite
where she was held, adding that when
asked him what he was doing there,
her husband replied that when he
came that morning to effect her bail,
the police pushed him into the cell for
ever asking for her bail.
Mrs. Isaiah informed the AIG that when
her husband confronted the DPO and
DCO about his wife’s allegedly raped
and kept in the same cell with men,
the DCO ordered that he should be
kept behind the counter.
While saying that she was later taken
to the Abraka Government hospital
where a doctor who treated her
confirmed that she was raped, alleged
that the IPO begged her not to tell
people about the doctor’s verdict.
“After our client was discharged from
the hospital, one Mr. Kobina Enamuotor
who is the father of one of the rapist,
Akpevwe and one Mr. Okotie whose
son was also involved in the rape,
together with the woman IPO and two
other police men went to the family of
our client begging for settlement and
they offered to pay damages of
N120,000 to the family.
“Meanwhile, the DPO of Abraka Police
Station seeing the seriousness of the
offence and the negligence of himself
and his men, refused to take any
meaningful action and wanting to cover
it up, before well wishers started
protesting and sending text messages
to the Commissioner of Police which led
to the transfer of the case to Asaba”,
the petitioner said.
She alleged that in Asaba the IPO who
was detailed to handle the case started
to intimidate her husband, threatening
him that if they did not hands off the
case, some thing more dangerous will
happen to them since the Assistant
Commissioner of Police in Asaba was
interested in the case and was ready to
deal ruthlessly with them.
“Our clients are in a serious trauma
and cry for justice with firm instruction
to demand and we hereby demand that
the AIG should use hid good offices and
detail well spirited policemen from his
office in Benin to carry out discrete
investigation into this heinous crime at
the Abraka police Station, Mama Afoke
and the rapists involved brought to
book.”
LINK:
www.vanguardngr.com/2013/03/woman-petitions-ig-alleges-she-was-raped-in-police-custody/

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OMG, THIS IPO AND DPO SHOULD BE HANGED FOR CONSPAIRING TO MOLEST THIS WOMAN. IF THE RUBISH LAW PARDON THEM, GOD WILL SURELY JUDGE THEM. SORRY MADAM

Naija Police no dey carry last! smh

So sad. How can a man's wife and mother of 5 kids be treated in this manner over a fight with a neighbor? All this is because the neighbor settled the police officers. Was she a flight risk? Why locking her up?

Wow, are you kidding me? DPO, IPO, the girlfriend and who ever raped this woman should be hanged immediately. I thought rape now carried a death sentence. This should be frontpage news. Men, some Nigerians are depraved and deranged. Who does this to a mother of 5 and a wife.

wazobia55: OMG, THIS IPO AND DPO SHOULD BE HANGED FOR CONSPAIRING TO MOLEST THIS WOMAN. IF THE RUBISH LAW PARDON THEM, GOD WILL SURELY JUDGE THEM. SORRY MADAM

where was your useless god when the rape was happening?

Is there Justice in this country? Police that is suppose to protect you....they should be hanged. There is the need to report this case to the Hembelembe Family on the Wazobia radio...Pls report this case to the Hembelembe Radio program and believe me, she will get justice! Very annoying!

Why on earth would the police keep a woman with able bodied men that had been docked for days that only God knows and expected nothing like molestation to happen to her.
Of course it is very understandable that the inmates' seminal vessicles and epididymis would have been full and ready to flow out through the urethra to any available vaginal pore.

The Police officers involved should be dismissed and charge for molestation conspiracy. Who knows if it was two of the officers that later entered the cell!

Wickedness in high places,,all we need is the total overhauling of the system n do away with theses good for nothing vampires call police haba! everyday one issue on the media or the other against the police,,this is just the high of unprofessional ism...

ypzilanti: So sad. How can a man's wife and mother of 5 kids be treated in this manner over a fight with a neighbor? All this is because the neighbor settled the police officers. Was she a flight risk? Why locking her up?

Y locking her up in men sail for d first place,Naija police self.

Madness of the highest order. Let the woman go to love FM brekete family where no evil is covered. Una hembelembe olololo. Justice must be done; front page please

I weep for naija