- As Police arrest two for alleged robbery, rape in Anambra
One Femi Onayemi has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for breaking into his 13-year-old female student’s home and sexually abusing her in the Obada-Oko area of the state.
PUNCH Metro reports that a police source in the state command on Sunday said Onayemi had earlier been hired by the girl’s parents to tutor her at their home in 2023.
The survivor’s parents were said to have been shell shocked to discover that the suspect scaled the fence of their home to gain access to the 13-year-old’s room to commit the horrid crime.
The spokesperson for the state command, Omolola Odutola, confirmed the incident, adding that the suspect has been arrested.
She said, “The parents of the minor approached our division at Obada Oko on June 12, 2024, to report the incident. The suspect was employed in 2023 to help the survivor with her studies at home.
“However, on June 9, 2024, the suspect was caught committing the crime after he had jumped over the fence of the house. Our men swung into action immediately after the matter was reported.
“The suspect was also believed to be attending the same church that the survivor attends every Sunday. He confessed to the crime after we arrested him.”
In September 2023, PUNCH Metro reported a similar incident involving a 43-year-old teacher, Joshua Olufemi, from the Heritage Group of Schools in Ofada Town, Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State, who allegedly assaulted a 13-year-old male pupil.
Olufemi was believed to have been allegedly having carnal knowledge of the minor through the pupil’s anus no fewer than six times at different times inside his room before his arrest.
In the meantime, the Anambra State Police Command said it had arrested two persons for armed robbery and rape.
Making the disclosure in a press statement issued by the state police spokesman, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, on Sunday., the Command said they recovered locally made guns, six live cartridges, and a motorcycle from the suspects.
According to Ikenga, the suspects were arrested on Saturday by the police operatives from Abagana Division in Njikoka Local Government Area of the state.
He said, “In the early hours of 15/6/2024, police operatives attached to the Abagana Division arrested two serial offenders wanted on a case of alleged rape and armed robbery, recovered two locally-made double barrel guns, one locally-made single barrel gun, six live cartridges, and one Q-link motorcycle.
“The suspects are Chukwuma Diji ‘M’ a.k.a Sympathy or Chi-boy aged 35 years of Obinagu Umudun Village, Abagana, and Michael Edochie, ‘M’, a.k.a. Mikel aged 31 years of Eziabunabu Umudun, Abagana, sometime in 2023, allegedly raped a married woman at Obinagu Abagana and fled the community when security operatives attempted to arrest them.
“Also on 6/6/2024, the suspects broke into an apartment belonging to a young lady and raped her and her friend at gunpoint.
The criminals later forced one of the victims to transfer money to his account after they took turns of sex with them. Chukwuma and Michael both confessed to the crime.
“The Commissioner of Police, Anambra State Police Command, CP Nnaghe Itam, has ordered the immediate transfer of the case to the State Criminal Investigation Department for a comprehensive look to get justice for the victims of the alleged crime.”
He added that the suspects would be arraigned in court after the investigation is concluded.
