Nigeria Police
have arrested one of the suspects in the gang-rape case that eventually made
the victim HIV positive. One of the suspects known as Fatai, who is a brother
to another member of the gang, has identified the arrested suspect in the
controversial case. Police believe he is out in the public continuing to rape
young women in Bariga.
It was gathered that the men of the Bariga Police Division, led by their DPO, Mr.
Edmund Afraimu, took up the matter and swung into action after the sexual
attack was reported at the Station earlier in the week.
The victim
said that in January, a five-man gang threatened her with a gun at about
5.30am, as she set out to go to work. The gang took her into the premises of a
house on Odunsi Street, where she was raped. At about same time, she said there
was another female victim also being raped, and a male victim, who were robbed
at gun point.
Aside from
her own molestation, she said her telephone, and money, were also seized by the
gang, and that she saw her phone being used by them two days after the
incident, in broad daylight.
At first,
she said, she decided not to make any trouble with the gang, or make any
pronouncements about the incident. Yet, after the results of the test, she did.
She was stunned after the incident that showed her health status as now HIV
positive to the virus. She then decided to raise alarm about the incident, and
identify the gang responsible.
The victim
also said she believes that there are many other victims, who like her, may
have decided to keep quiet to avoid shame. But she advised everyone living in
Bariga, and anyone who has any affair with men living what she described as “an
indecent life,” that they should seriously consider going for a health check-up
to ascertain their overall health status regarding HIV.
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