NABBED!!! Perpetrators Of Ejigbo Sodomy Arrested At Oba Moruf's Palace in Lagos
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Reporters reports
the arrest of all the perpetrators of a bestial torture and sodomy of
three women in Ejigbo which happened February last year. The arrest of
the sodomy gang, happened at the palace of Oba Moruf Adisa Ojoola of
Ejigbo earlier today. The arrest was
possible due to immense pressure on Oba Moruf himself, he reportedly
got all the men assembled at his palace around 11pm Saturday night. The
gathering of the gang by Oba Moruf followed a closure of the market
yesterday, which prevented the market men and women from carrying out
their trading activities until the perpetrators were identified and
brought to book.
The gang’s
torture and sodomizing of a lady by thrusting of a bottle of ground
pepper and sticks in her genital had resulted in her death, two months
after. She was later identified as “Juliana” by her father, a palm wine
tapper, who revealed that he also lost a toddler in the incidence as his
wife, mother of the baby while being tortured by the gang was not
allowed to attend to the baby. In addition to
torture, the gang also destroyed the palm wine tapper’s house and
banished him from the community, after he was made to pay N50,000 as
fine to secure the release of his wife and two daughters.
On Thursday,
last week, Oba Moruf was invited by the Lagos Assembly Committee
regarding the investigation into the crime. A source familiar with the
meeting of the Oba with the committee revealed that the Oba’s demeanor
at the meeting was cooperative, and he did not spend much time. The previous
day, Wednesday, the Iyaloja (Ejigbo Market women leader) also visited
the committee on invitation. She was accompanied by her husband, who
pledged support toward the investigation. The Babaloja,
who allegedly received a fine from the palm wine tapper and also
supervised his banishment, did not honour an invitation by the
committee.
He gave the excuse that he had injury on his leg but sources
in the market said the Babaloja may have had the injury when he scaled a
fence to escape arrest by a police team that visited the market for
investigation last week. At a public
hearing upon constitution of the Lagos Assembly committee, the police,
the local government chairman, market women and other members of the
Ejigbo community had denied knowledge of the crime, even as sources from
the community insisted the crime happened in the public glare.
As efforts
progressed into finding the perpetrators, the police, through its DPO in
Ejigbo, CSP Oliver Abbey had clearly shown complicity and lxity by
claiming it doubted the event happened at all, evidently by doing
nothing about it. CSP Abbey was later deployed out of the area after his
compromised position became clear to his superiors. It is expected
that the arrested gang would be tried for the crime of murder, and the
illegal sum collected from Mr. Freeman, the palm wine tapper to secure
his wife and daughters recovered. Mr. Freeman’s family is also expected to be rehabilitated.
