A commercial bus driver, identified as Emeka
Ugwudiobi has been accused of raping one of his
passengers from 7 p.m. to 10 a.m. at gun point in an
uncompleted building around Mayor Market, Enugu.
According to the prosecution counsel, Mr Francis Ajagu, the
driver plies the New Market-Gariki route and the victim was
one of his passengers.
On that fateful day, the driver noticed only the victim was
remaining in the bus and drove to an uncompleted building
beside the Mayor Market and started raping the victim.
Ajagu said the victim was raped from 7 p.m. to 10 a.m.
without break and that the pleas of the victim to allow her rest
fell on deaf ears. The victim was rescued by one Mr Chidubem
Ezeorah, a passerby who ran into the scene and reported the
case to the police.
He said that the victim could hardly stand on her feet when the
police came to her rescue in the uncompleted building.
However, Mr Obeta Peter, the counsel to the accused, who
described the accused as a responsible man with a wife and
four children said Emeka had been driving for the past 16 years
and that nobody had ever complained that he was a rapist.
He denied that his client had ever set eyes on the victim before,
adding that there was no way a bus driver would carry a gun
inside his bus and the police would not notice.
Justice Dorathy Agishi ordered the accused to be remanded in
prison custody while adjourning the case to Feb. 26, 2014 for
further hearing.

At this century.

for straight 15hours? O boy!