A medical doctor in Osun State, Olayode Akangbe Shakiru, has been apprehended by police for allegedly assaulting and raping an 18-year-old girl in Osogbo, the state capital.
The arrest was made by officers from the Oke-Baale Police Division following a report filed by the victim’s family.
PLATFORM TIMES reports that the incident began when Dr. Shakiru offered the teenager a lift while she was walking along the road.
It was further gathered that he collected her phone number before dropping her off at Oke-Fia Area of Osogbo.
Shortly thereafter, they began exchanging text messages, during which Shakiru promised to help the girl, who was seeking admission into a tertiary institution, secure a job to fund her studies.
According to the victim, she met Shakiru when she was in Osogbo searching for employment.
He introduced himself as a doctor and showed her medical documents to gain her trust.
After a few days of communication, Shakiru invited her to his house under the pretense of filling out employment forms for a job at Atoke Hospital in Igbona Area, where he claimed to work.
The victim narrated her ordeal, stating that when she arrived at Shakiru’s house, he assaulted her.
“He started touching and caressing me. I shunned him and kept removing his hands.
He persisted despite my rejection, and I started struggling with him. He became violent, hitting my face with blows and strangling me until I was powerless. He then raped me,” she recounted.
Following the assault, the teenager fled and reported the incident to her older sister, who took her to the police. A subsequent police investigation led to Shakiru’s arrest.
On how Shakiru allegedly took advantage of her when she visited his place to fill the purported job form, the survivor stated: “I visited his house at Ilesa Garage for the filing of the job form the next day, which is Wednesday. I had already told him I don’t have transportation fare to Osogbo because I was coming from Osunjela community. He said how much will it take me to get to Osogbo, I told him N1,500 and he sent it to me. Upon receiving the money, I boarded a bus to Osogbo. He came to pick me to his house around 3:30pm.
“The house is a room and parlour self-contained. I sat at the sitting room, and I was waiting for him to bring out the employment form. Then, he started touching and caressing me. I shunned him and kept removing his hands. He persisted despite my rejection, and I started struggling with him. He became so violent to prevent me from screaming, started hitting my face with blows and held my throat with his left hand. I became so weak, and I was thinking he wanted to kill me for ritual.
“He kept on strangulating me in a corner of the room till he had forceful sexual intercourse with me. Even after he finished, he remained on me for a few minutes before he left me. After I regained consciousness and some strength, he opened the door that he had locked and I ran out of the house around 5:00pm.”
She added: “After I left his place, I discovered I sustained injuries on my left eye and throat. Also, one of my earrings fell inside his room when he was forcing himself on me, slapping and beating me repeatedly.”
On the action she took after the incident, the teenager said: “I went to my older sister and narrated my ordeals to her. It was after that, that she took me to Oke-Baale Police Station in Osogbo and we reported the rape incident.”
Meanwhile, a text message the medical doctor reportedly sent to the victim on WhatsApp, telling her of his intention to secure employment for her, was obtained by our correspondent.
An older brother to the victim, who did not want to be named said the girl could not locate the house when the police took her there to arrest the suspect, adding, “We then took the Police to Atoke Hospital in Igbona Area where he claimed to be working.
The nurses at the hospital said Shakiru comes once a while to attend to patients.”
“On Thursday, last week, he was arrested by the police along the road while returning to Osogbo from Ipetumodu along Ile-Ife road. When he took the police to his house in Osogbo, a pair of my sister’s earrings that fell off was found there.”
When the Public Relations Officer of the Osun State Police Command, Yemisi Opalola, was contacted, she confirmed the rape incident and said investigation was being carried out by the police.
Opalola added that the medical doctor has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department for further actions.
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