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Solabomi Shoaga
The Ogun State tate Police Command has arrested one Ebenezer Adeshina for allegedly raping and blackmailing his girlfriend.
PLATFORM TIMES gathered that the
rape suspect met his 16- year-old girlfriend whose name was withheld on Facebook in 2021.
The suspect invited his girlfriend to his house on the pretence of offering her money to repair her faulted phone. During the visitation, the suspect added seductive drug into her drink.
The drug makes his girlfriend unconscious, giving him the chance to rape and take pictures of his girlfriend’s nudes.
The Police spokesperson in the state , Abimbola Oyeyemi disclosed this in a statement on Monday.
Oyeyemi said the suspect was arrested on Friday after the victim reported the incident to the police at Owode Egbado Divisional Police station.
“Upon the report, the DPO Owode Egbado division, CSP Muhammad S Baba, detailed his detectives to go after the suspect, he was eventually apprehended and he has confessed to the commission of the crime.
“The victim stated further that “Her phone got spoilt along the line, and she couldn’t chat with the suspect anymore but then in the month of March 2022, the suspect called her and asked why she didn’t chat with him anymore,of which she informed him of her spoilt phone.
“The suspect there and then asked her to come to his house to collect the sum of three thousand naira for the repair of the phone. On getting there, the suspect offered her a drink which she took unknown to her that the drink has been laced with a sedative drug.
“Immediately she took the drink, she became unconscious and the suspect used the opportunity to have unlawful carnal knowledge of her against her wish. After having sex with her in the state of unconsciousness, the suspect took her nude pictures and started threatening to upload the pictures on social media if she didn’t pay him the sum of fifty thousand naira.” he said .
However, the Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to anti human trafficking and child labour unit of the state Criminal Investigation and intelligence Department for further investigation and possible prosecution
