A 25-year-old Abia state indigene, Nnena Okoro has been
arrested and arraigned before an Apapa High Court for conniving with a rapist
to lure a 14 year old girl, (pictured
above) from her home where she lived with her aunt in Sumoratu Estate, off Ojo
Road, Lagos State to a hotel in Wowo street in Ojo Lagos where she was raped on
May 16, 2015.
Punch reports that Nnena who resides in the same area with
Faith and was the little girl's confidant, had on the day of the incident asked
Faith to get her some mangoes at Barracks area. When they got to Wowo street,
she lured the girl into the hotel which is located on the same street, and
handed her to the rapist.
Narrating what happened, Faith said
"Aunty Nnena (Okoro) said I should follow her to buy
mangoes in Barracks Lane. She did not like the mangoes they had there and she
said we should go to Ojo Road. We went to a hotel and met a man, who she called
her friend. Aunty Nnena told me to enter a room. Suddenly, both of them dragged
me to the bed. Nnena held my hand and covered my mouth with a cloth. The man
pulled off my trousers and raped me. He left the hotel immediately he finished
doing it and said he had paid Aunty Nnena. I went outside crying. It was one
woman around the area that helped to clean the blood coming out from my private
parts when she saw me. She later took me to the Layeni Police Station."she
said
Nnena in her confessional statement denied taking Faith to
the rapist
"Faith is my friend. On the fateful day, we both went
to buy mangoes on Ojo Road. On getting to a hotel at Tolu, one man called her.
They both discussed and the man paid N500 to the hotel attendant and they
entered the room. I later left them inside the room to ease myself. It was when
I came back that she told me that she was raped. I did not know that she was a
virgin. We have never discussed anything like that before. Her pants were
stained with blood. I have never seen the man before that day, but I can
recognize him if I see him again.”
Nnena has been arraigned before an Apapa Magistrate court on
a two count charge, and had pleaded not guilty to the crime. The presiding
magistrate, Mr. P.A. Adekomaya, after hearing her defense, granted her bail in
the sum of N100,000 and adjourned the case till June 22, 2015.
A test carried out on Faith showed her hymen had been
ruptured
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