The Ogun State Police Command has arrested three of the five men who allegedly gang raped a lady (name withheld) last Thursday at Ogijo area of Sagamu council area.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who made this known in a statement on Tuesday, said that the suspects were arrested last weekend following a complaint by the victim at Ogijo Police Division.
Explaining how the incident happened Oyeyemi said: “The victim had reported that she met a man, simply identified as Enny Money, who gave her an application to download on her phone with an assurance that those she will meet through that application will help her financially.
“She further stated that as soon as she downloaded the application, one man, whom she later identified as the same Enny Money, started chatting with her and invited her to Idimogun area in Ogijo.
“She said that on getting there, she was lured into a house where she was subsequently gang raped by five men who called themselves members of the one million boys.
“The victim explained that the gang forced her to submission when one of them pointed a gun at her, adding that another one video recorded the action with his phone while they were taking turns to rape her.”
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The PPRO further stated that following the report, detectives from the Ogijo division of the command were dispatched to the area to arrest the suspects.
According to him, the detectives succeeded in arresting two of the suspects around the area on Friday.
“Their arrest led the detectives to the third suspect, who was arrested on Sunday.
“On interrogation, the suspects made confessional statements that they actually committed the crime as alleged by the victim.
“They further confessed that the victim was the second person they gang raped in the area,” he added.
Oyeyemi also said that the police recovered a toy gun which the suspects usually use to force their victims to submission as well as a phone which they use to record “their dastardly act”.
He said that the state Commissioner of Police, Edward Ajogun, had ordered the transfer of the suspects to the state Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for an further investigations, even as he also ordered that the remaining members of the gang be hunted for and brought to justice.
