Four months ago, Opi community in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State made news when some youth in the sleepy community and university town of Nsukka raped helpless widows old enough to be their grandmothers and great-grandmothers.

The abominable act recorded particularly in Ogbozalla and Ibeku areas of the community, was exclusively reported by Sunday Sun in its edition of March 18, this year, and attracted condemnation from across the society. However, apparently, neither the Federal nor the Enugu State government did enough to fish out the perpetrators of the heinous crime and ensure that they face the wrath of the law.

T[b]hus emboldened by the official inaction, the rapists, according to women in Ogbozalla community, went back and raped their victims all over again as if daring Governor Sullivan Chime, the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremmadu; as well as Senator Ayogu Eze and other political heavy-weights from the state. Expectedly, the rape of the first set of victims again by the same hoodlums raises some nagging questions.

Were the rapists angered by the widows’ courage to speak to the media or did the old widows or their children offend these hoodlums or their friends? Are the raped widows hapless victims of a powerful cult group on the prowl or just victims of a weak State security apparatus?

Also begging for explanation is the seeming icy silence on the part of the authorities. Checks by Sunday Sun revealed that before the second incident, the victims had received gifts that they were told, came from Governor Sullivan. The items included foams, bedsheets, bags of rice, salt, seasonings, pots, plates, and clothings. Each of the raped widows was also given a carton of milk, a carton of detergent and N5000.

But surprisingly, exactly two weeks after the items were distributed to them, the women were roundly raped again. Now, the women want to know where the gift items came from. They said they were curious because there are rumours that the gifts did not come from the governor.
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They are also worried that all the raped women in Ogbozalla got the gift, a disturbing indication that somebody somewhere might be financing those engaged in the evil act. Moreover, how come the yet-to-be-identified donor knew all the raped women?

Yet another source of the women’s worry is the fact that it was a fellow woman who told the victims to remain indoors, hinting that the governor would send people to them with some gift items.

They accused Ogbozalla leaders and elders of shielding the bad boys from facing prosecution adding that their sorrow started when some of the suspected rapists who were picked up and detained at the State Police Headquarters, Enugu, regained their freedom in November, 2011. “For seven months that these boys were in detention at the Police Criminal Investigation Department, Enugu, there was absolute peace in this community.

But since November, last year, when some powerful men in our community bailed them out of detention, we have not known peace in this community. “Apart from raping old women, they also steal whatever they could lay their hands on, ranging from fowls, goats, clothes, jewelleries to money. They equally extort money by force in broad daylight from people,” the women said.

Some of the victims of the second rape spoke to Sunday Sun, narrating their sordid experience in the hands of the rapists. Victims’ tales of sorrow Abonyi Janet: is one of the victims of the first incident in Ogbozalla Opi. A poor widow with five children, she confirmed that two weeks after the rape, she received gifts purported to be from the state governor, but she was raped again.

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This can't be possibly be happening in the 21st century
All Igbos, particularly Enugu and Nsukka people should be very ashamed.

They should rise up NOW and ACT. Justice must be done

How sensible is it for young men to be sleeping with old women, I wonder how they feel.

Dis beasts can neva get away wit it.som of dem myt have even contacted hiv from dis old women,unfortunatly for dem,dis men suffer d old womens curse wen they think dey are now comfortable.in d 1st place d gifts too is an insult on dis womens intelligence.what amount of gift can make uop for d wickedness dey have done.and i pray dat is how their mothers,daughters and sisters will suffer.their sons will rape their mothers and their sisters will b raped by hooligans.anybody dat rapes a woman,raping and sexual perversion will not live their household.history and d bible has proved it right as in d case of davids family where he sent one of his soildiers to go to war knowing hes nt strong enof for it,d man died in d battle ant took over d wife because he lusted afta her.dat was d beginin of doom in his house hold,his son raped his sister and attempted to kil him,som of d kids of his concubines raped som of his wives ,sex,debauchery and sleepin wit prostitutes killed solomon and samson.d list goes on and on