Osun's gift to Nigeria

AN Osogbo magistrates’ court, presided over by Mr Olusola Aluko, on Monday, sentenced a 34-year-old Olanbeloye Nurudeen to a total of 10 years imprisonment without an option of fine, for raping an 11-year-old girl (names withheld) in his room.
The convict, a farmer, who faced two-count charge of unlawful defilement and rape, was subsequently sentenced to five years imprisonment for each count charge, though the sentence would run concurrently.
Olabenloye was said to have committed the offences on April 24 at Sagba’s compound, Ikire, in Irewole Local Government Area of the state.

For allegedly raping a 10-year-old girl (name withheld), a 62-year-old, Mr. John Osunade, has been remanded in prison custody by an Osogbo Magistrate’s Court.

The charge sheet read in court on Tuesday accused Osunade of perpetrating the act on May 27, 2012, at his residence in Tonkere village, Gbongan town in Ayedaade Local Government Area, Osun State.

When his plea was taken, the accused pleaded not guilty to the one-count of rape.

Police prosecutor, Inspector Elisha Olusegun, said the offense was punishable under Section 218 of the Criminal Code, Cap 34, Volume II, Laws of Osun State of Nigeria, 2003.

Defence prosecutor, Mr. Reginald Ngwu, urged the court to admit the accused to bail, adding that Osunade remained innocent until the contrary was proved in court.

Ngwu, who said Osunade was ready to face trial, added that the accused would provide reliable sureties if granted bail.

But the Magistrate, Mr. Olusola Aluko, ordered the accused to be remanded in custody, adding that the court would entertain Osunade’s bail application in written form and not in oral.

Aluko adjourned the case until Wednesday, July 4, 2012, for mention.

Osun State Police Command has arrested a 22-year-old man, Daniel Sunday, for allegedly raping two underage girls of the same parents.
The suspect was said to have lured the girls to an uncompleted building in Iloko Ijesa by showing them pornographic film on his telephone.
The two sisters, who fell into the hands of the suspect, were said to be aged eight and 12 years.
They were sent on an errand by their mother, which reportedly gave Sunday the opportunity to lure them with the erotic film in his telephone.
The suspect was also said to have given the victims N50 each to further entice them.
The girls were said to have stayed back at the uncompleted building after they had been defiled, while their mother became worried when she couldn’t find her two daughters at home.

A young man, Abubakar Saide (not real name) has been arrested by the police for allegedly having carnal knowledge a five-year-old girl in Osogbo, Osun State Capital.

It was learnt that Abubakar reportedly defiled the infant around 6:30 a.m. near Salvation Army Primary School, Oke-Fia area of the city during the weekend.

According to the victim’s mother, she left her daughter in the room to fetch water from the next compound only to return and caught the suspect raping the girl.

21-yr-old arrested for raping deaf mute girl in Osun State

A 21-year-old man, Shina Amusa, is currently in the custody of the Osun State police command for allegedly having carnal knowledge of an 18-year-old deaf and dumb girl (names withheld).

The suspect, who is being investigated by detectives attached to Dugbe Divisional Police Headquarters, Osogbo, was alleged to have overpowered the girl and forced her into his room before raping her.

Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Folasade Odoro, who spoke with the Nigerian Tribune on the issue, said the case, which was reported to the police by the father of the victim, Yisa Adebayo, was being handled with seriousness to ensure that the suspect faces the full consequence of his action.

The victim’s father told the police that the girl went to the ground floor of their residence, located at Owode Street, Osogbo, to use the convenience when Amusa gripped her and forced her into his room.

The man said: “About five minutes later, I went looking for her. That was how I started hearing her voice. I traced her and discovered that she was shouting from Amusa’s room.”

The man said further that the suspect had locked the door when he got to his room and by the time he forced the door open, he met Amusa having sex with his daughter.

Nigerian Tribune gathered that the victim had been taken to the Ladoke Akintola Teaching University Hospital (LAUTECH), Osogbo, for treatment, where it was confirmed that there was penetration of the girl’s private part.

The PPRO said that the case had been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Osogbo, for further investigation.

nnenna.1:



Cultural?

Erm...you don't see any of the educated Igbos here glorifying rape. Also you'd have to provide something to the effect of >80% of girls in abia being molested.

Be reasonable, for once. There was nothing like molestation or rape here because the intercourse was consensual, and the two have been intimate friends before. If they were not, the girl would have gone to the oba's place with a fellow corper.

From CHUKS ONUOHA, Umuahia

It was not something Abia was known for and it definitely was not a business venture. But today, child trafficking has become a big time business and a steady source of survival.

It is no longer news that the baby trade industry thrives in every nook and cranny of Abia communities and the adjoining states.

Many residents know the traders, where they operate, but watch helplessly. No thanks to dwindling sense of values, the society is gradually drifting back to the slave trade era when those who cannot fend for their many children, sold some and use the proceeds to cater for the others.

How it started

The good book says that children are blessings from the Lord, but in some parts of the South East and the South South, children have become wares from the factory, and only those with good money can purchase them. This is an apt description of what goes on in Abia state. What has become popularly known as “baby factory” came to the open in the state in 2006, when one Ben Ezinma, the Programme Manager of a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in the state, Child Rights Network (CHIRN), drew the attention of the state government to the sale of babies by some unscrupulous persons, motherless babies homes and orphanages in the state.

Ezinma said then, that the privately owned homes were channels for child trafficking and slavery in the state and urged the government to investigate the process of child adoption, because it had been grossly abused. He described what went on then as, “neo-trafficking” in the name of adoption, adding that the price of a child was as high as N200,000 depending on the sex or state of health of the baby.

Before the child trade boom, dumping of children was commonplace and people with dubious business sense, realizing that the dumped children could be source of joy for childless couples, exploited the situation to make money. Consequently, organized baby racketeering drastically reduced child-dumping cases. Initially, it was not seen as illegal because some ‘smart’ people just set up homes where young girls with unwanted pregnancies came to give birth, gave up their babies and returned home to their parents as if nothing had happened. The new babies were later sold to those in need. Thus, many people set up child trade outlets and anyone with enough money walked in and smiled home with a baby of his or her choice.

Disturbing statistics

In 2007, 19 girls were rescued from a cartel that operated between Aba and Port Harcourt in Rivers state and in 2008, 13 girls were rescued from 80-year-old Grace Erondu. Another 14 girls were rescued from Divine Mercy and Childcare Home at 2, Nwankpe Street, Aba, managed by Felicia Ebe in 2008, and 42 others rescued from Nma Child Care/Charity Centre.

Then in 2008, seven pregnant girls were rescued in Enugu. In 2009, over six baby factories were sealed with hundreds of pregnant young girls released. In January and March 2010, 40 and 37 girls were rescued respectively in Abia. In April 2013, 20 pregnant girls were found in a home in Anambra state. The list is endless.

Reactions to a wild fire

Ezinma who is also president of Civil Society Coalition Against Human Trafficking and sale of babies in Nigeria (SCAHT), said that his organization conducted a survey on baby factories in 2006, in Abia state and likened what it discovered to a wild fire.

“They operated without regulations as it was an all-comers affair. It was at this point that government and some relevant agencies became interested in the matter. We wrote petitions after which some organizations including National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and other related matters (NAPTIP). It was at this point that government stepped in. Before this time, many did not know what was going on. It was after this period that people started hearing about closure of homes, arrests of offenders, their prosecution, etc. They invited us for series of meetings to authenticate our petitions, followed by the invitation from the state government, Ministry of Women Affairs and others, and the matter was looked into seriously and some of the outlets for this illegal activities were sealed up”, Ezinma said.

Reason for upsurge

A secondary school teacher, Mr Christian Ukandu, attributed the increase in teenage pregnancies to mass poverty.

“Poverty is the major factor causing teenage pregnancy. Most families find it difficult to feed three times daily and as a result, they lose control of their children. Peer pressure eventually lures them into social vices including unwanted pregnancy. Child trafficking is on the increase and the root cause of it is poverty. As a teacher, I have observed that teenagers become uncontrollable at a particular stage of their lives, and it takes the true concentration of parents to notice this and re-direct them, because once they are not put right at this stage, it is finished”, Ukandu said.

Before the emergence of baby factories, there were orphanages, where abandoned children or those whose parents died, were reared. The orphanages are not for young pregnant girls looking for a way out of their predicament. Today, the conventional motherless babies’ homes have lost out to baby factories. The ‘factories’ recruit and camp pregnant young girls, mostly teenagers. They allegedly hypnotize, coerce or lure some of their victims into getting pregnant and keep them until they give birth for a ready couple waiting to buy. Unlike the motherless babies homes, the baby factories are absolutely illegal. Also, in motherless babies homes, there is a process of adoption but in baby factories, it is outright sale of babies to the highest bidder. While baby factories do their business in clandestine manner, with the sole objective of exploiting their victims, the motherless babies homes enjoy official backing.

The way out

On the way out of the ugly trend, Ezinma said: “If you want to get these people out of business, you have to dry their source of supply, which is the teenage girls. If the source of a river dries up, the river stops flowing. If the process that makes young girls get pregnant is put in check, most of these homes will close down.

“Other problems are poverty and ignorance. Poverty must be tacked on all fronts. Some of the girls get pregnant by accident and once they find themselves in any of these homes, they are hypnotized or encouraged to stay longer and get the money they would use to start a business thereafter. In some cases, they are told to stay back and have more babies to earn more. After all, they just sit in a place, get fed and impregnated, and when they deliver, money is given to them. So, what have they to lose?

“What we need is aggressive reproductive health education so that people will be well informed. In the beginning, the boy’s intention was not to impregnate the girl, but once it happens and the girl finds herself in that situation, the evil ones go to work. She would be lectured on the advantages of what she has done, but nobody would tell her the disadvantages”, Ezinma said.

Why the trade thrives in South East

The SCAHT president told Sunday Sun that the fear of stigmatization in the South East often pushes many pregnant girls to the baby factories. He said: “In the South East for instance, we need cultural re-orientation to tell parents that a girl getting pregnant outside wedlock, does not make her an outcast. To the people of the South East, it is a taboo for a young girl to get pregnant when she is not married. The society will taunt her and her parents and label them irresponsible and in some places, ostracize or even fine them some huge sum of money. This makes some of the girls to bolt, in order not to bring shame to their families and in the process, fall into the hands of these baby factory owners who welcome them with open arms.

“Some parents encourage their pregnant daughters to go to those factories to avoid shame. The way the society in the South East perceives teenage pregnancy and unmarried girls is what makes them run away from home to a ‘safer ground’ and this could land them in baby factories.

But in the West for instance, if a young girl got pregnant, her parents would not chase her away. There is almost nothing as a bastard there, because all they need from the girl is to identify who is responsible for her pregnancy and once he admits, little ceremonies are performed and she moves on.”

Unenviable image

Checks by Sunday Sun revealed that the issue has become so rampant that when anyone talks about baby factory, the next place people refer to, is Abia state in particular, and the South East in general. If you talk about a missing pregnant girl, you are advised to look for her in Aba. Within this month (April) alone, the Civil Defence Corps and the Police have made startling discoveries about baby factories in the state. The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps rescued 32 teenage girls in various stages of pregnancy from Chigemezu Care Centre in Umuzuo community in Osisioma Local Government Area of Abia state. Just last week, a pregnant mother of two who was tricked out of her matrimonial home in Imo state, to Aba in Abia state by her friend that had made arrangements for buyers of her nine-month-old pregnancy, was paraded by the Commissioner of Police, Mr Usman Tilli. The police rescued the victim, Ogechi Eberendu from Imo state, while she was being induced to deliver the baby for a waiting buyer. The police arrested five suspects including four females, for the alleged crime and hinted that they would soon be charged to court. The suspects came from Rivers, Imo and Anambra states for the purchase of the unborn child, a pointer to Abia state’s growing but unenviable image as the home of a booming illegal baby trade.

The Public Relations Officer of NSCDC, Mr Ogbonna Victor, whose organization rescued the teenage girls, said they were taken to the Ministry of Women Affairs for necessary action after interviewing them. According to him, the normal thing is that the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and other related matters (NAPTIP) would receive the girls, carry out further investigation into the matter and bring them and the suspect back for prosecution. But he stated that NAPTIP was yet to establish an office in Abia and for that reason, anything could have happened. He urged the state government to do something fast about it.

A source at the Ministry of Women Affairs said that while some of the girls who are not natives of the state had been sent back to their states, those from the state and the suspect, Mrs Nnenna Mba, were sent to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) for prosecution. But Ogbonna wondered why the ministry took the girls to the police, whereas the NSCDC rescued them and arrested the suspect, adding that the Corps ought to prosecute them.

“I don’t know why they decided to send the woman to the State CID for prosecution. Maybe, it’s because the woman’s husband is a policeman. You know that NSCDC does not do magomago in any matter. We are always straight in whatever we do”, the PRO said.

The whereabouts of the teenage pregnant girls became an issue following enquiries by a Lagos-based Non-Governmental Organization that had assured that its foreign partners would assist them. The Commissioner for Women Affairs, Mrs Ugoeze Joy Alozie could not be reached for comments on the matter as at press time.

Need for legislation

Speaking to Sunday Sun on the whereabouts of the girls, Ezinma said that they could move into another baby factory. “However, the government has a role to play in this matter. The state House of Assembly should enact a law criminalizing the abandonment or chasing out of pregnant young girls by their parents and stopping people from ostracizing such girls. It will give the young girls protection and safe landing. Some of the girls are looking for a way to survive; so after having their babies, they just disappear.

“Government should ensure that it becomes a crime to ostracize, banish or reject pregnant girls, parents and families by communities. If there is such a law, people will become apprehensive when deciding on such matters. Those who impregnate girls and abandon them should also be regarded as criminals. Abia State Government should give NAPTIP an office so that they can flush out these criminals giving the state a negative image.

“The state has been stereotyped as a baby factory state. Government should encourage agencies that ought to handle this matter. This problem has gone beyond the Ministry of Women Affairs. When you talk about sale of babies, it appears light, but we are talking about human lives. The international community should do something because it has become a problem that all human beings must address. These innocent lives are sold, sometimes or most times, for destruction”, he stated.

The rape in Osun got so bad,they proposed cutting off their Blokoss
The only state in the whole Nigeria where rap.e has reached the high heavens
How can they cut off blokosses
That will be cutting off the Blokoss of half their population in Osun

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The Osun State government has sent a bill to the state’s House of Assembly, asking that the pen.ises of convicted rapists be cut off.

The Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, Mrs. Mofolake Adegboyega said that stringent penalty like cutting off of their “third leg’’ will be appropriate for their offence.

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http://www.360nobs.com/2012/11/new-law-rape-in-osun-state-and-have-your-penis-cut-off/

Thank God I have no kin in Osun
A land where traditional rulers and subjects ra.pe women with impunity including their children
This is how bad it is over there
It has gotten out of hand
No female including suckling babies are safe in Osun
Something must be done
More power to Mrs Adegboyega
Babyosisi is solidly behind you here

babyosisi:

This is just one woman from another area
80 % of The indigenous Osun girls are molested by age 18
Let the Osun women cry and go unclad about their animals called men

dumb Ibo girl

Ola Johnson:
Be reasonable, for once. There was nothing like molestation or rape here because the intercourse was consensual, and the two have been intimate friends before. If they were not, the girl would have gone to the oba's place with a fellow corper.

Yes conclude that it was consensual no matter what. Girl smiles at you or waves to say hi or helps you with your homework, and you thereafter rape or take advantage. It's okay to assume consent based on prior acquaintance.

D....ick over p.ussssy!!!

LWKMD.

I've heard it from many woman right activist, it is a well known fact that it is difficult to prOove a case of rape in favour of the victim. And this is because, most rape victims find it difficult to open up on time and many test to proof that a rape occured must be done shortly after the crime at the hospital
Doctor may need to take the sample of fluid(semen) in the vagina, comb off the pubic hair for testing.etc meaning a rape victim shld not take her bath before reporting . Assessment of appearrance, general physical examination . Picture of any bruise or mark (those in the displayable regions. Keeping the tored cloth and pant

nnenna.1:
Baby factories are a shameful business that involves a variety of Nigerians. One notorious baby factory in the east (don't recall where specifically) was ran by a Yoruba woman for example.

But your attempts to derail here have actually supported my hypothesis on this rape and underage molestation theories for some reasons.

1. It is on record that the SE has the lowest number of teen pregnancies in the nation. I am on my phone so I can't provide the stats to back this up yet. This is because teen pregnancies are seen as taboo among Igbos many of the female victims involved in this baby factory thing state that fear and stigma drive them to give away their babies for sale. Lower teen pregnancies correllate with lower incidencies of teen sex to an extent, including underage molestation.

Also not all teen pregnancies come from rape. Teen boys and girls consensually involve in such at school sometimes.

Ah! Interesting!

So you are against the generalisation of people by the actions of a few?! Hypocrite!

Please can you provide any verifiable evidence to support your ridiculous assertions? You like to criticize others but you cannot for the life of you deal with counter-criticism.

When you eventually get off the phone, can you please provide confirmable statistics to back up your dumb post- Thank you!

@Ola Johnson, A little girl of 10 years can smile and call you uncle and go on errands for you. As long as she has a vajayjay and she is Igbo and you Yoruba...

Daz All.

Dic...k over p...ussy!!!q

they should have made the king show whatever he has and ridicule him in the process. a muslim name and a king should not be accused for something like this and there is no way boy friend and girl friend is even a way out to justify any intercourse. this is so wrong on many levels, if it happened. may God make it easy for the young woman to move on with her life to a good end. amin.

nigerian men need to stop victimizing women.

[color=#990000][/color]PPA: Place of Promicuos Assignment ;DPPA: Place of Promicuos Assignment

picoba: Halve bake graduate!
I guess she want to make money from the monarch. If truly the monarch molests you inside your own house why can’t you give him a mark?

I dont think you have been following this saga. The Oba was alleged to have molested the corper in his private guest house. I wonder how she was supposed to get evidence of the beddings from the Oba's residence or inflict a mark on him.

gboss4sure: Nawa for the molester and the molested....... Infact make i no tok again

nawa for the molester and the molestee

proO1:
This is one reason why most rape cases in this part of the world would remain impossible to prove beyond reasonable doubt. It often comes down to motive-driven accusations by the female against the male, often emanating from some form of quarrel between both parties. In the end, it becomes a matter of her word against his.

In the absence of audio-visual evidence or credible witnesses, how possible is it to prove beyond reasonable doubt that an act of sex between two individuals who are familiar with each other was rape and not consensual?

Anyhow one looks at it, successfully establishing a case of rape that occurred in an isolated environment with no witnesses or audio-visual evidence is extremely difficult, especially when the accused insists that the sexual act was consensual.

I'd have to agree with the court judgment, based on the circumstances of the case.

Bro I think this one is different we served together with the girl in question. It's only a pity that after a long drama by the Monarch justice has finally been denied. God dey sha.

I don't know why some people see things only through a tribal prism.


People like Babyosisi and Italiano should stop being childish. Why do ethic bigots like you lots have to always hijack every unfortunate event for your useless arguments?

Where lies your emotion to the families of these victims?

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What is the difference btw you lots and Boko Haram, or racist in Europe?


You lots should be ashamed of yourselves.

nawa ooo,luks lyk osun state no dey carry last in child molestation ..ar u sure dt yerima is nt frm osun state

Don't have sex with the guy and then say he raped you. It's not that easy to prove, especially if you don't have evidence. It's best to have intimate relations with a husband.

it was a case of consensus ad idem. Both of them agreed to it.

I am not in any way making mockery of R*ape, but sometimes i wonder if it would be possible for the person committing the evil act to penetrate the victim easily without her being WET....But i guess it doesn't matter since it wasn't consensual even though the victim might have enjoyed it....Bitter sweet i might add.....the bitter part is the rape and the sweet part is if the KOKO was good......

It breaks my hear how formally educated young men can treat rape with such nonchanlance.

Whether the girl was raped, none of us knows but just because the court says she wasn't doesn't mean she wasn't. For the fact that she was bold enough to speak against a monarch, I commend her. Monarchs should set good example such as not raping or involving in pre-marital sex

I still don't get why female victims are turned culprits in rape cases. Excuses are made for male rapists ranging from the girl is possessed, cursed, not a virgin, angered the man or asked for it by being alone with the man. It is so unfair that men meant to protect women are the ones harassing and victimising them.

Whether the girl went into a room with a man, not a virgin or insulted him, there is no excuse for rape. To you men supporting rape, desist from such it doesn't speak well of your person.

^^ Tell us one reason you believe a girl who left her place of Assignment , followed a man to oshogbo, into the mans bedroom was molested ?

Tell us why you believe the girls story over the monarchs.

Looking at the story logically it doesnt add up.

Would a single girl be in the bedroom of a man alone at 9pm when you have no romantic relationship with him? What are the chances