According to Vanguard, Sharon's mother Mrs. Eghobamien, a casual worker in the school of Nursing, noticed that her daughter had been walking in an unusual manner and constantly complained of abdominal pains, urinating frequently and defecating.
When she interrogated her, Sharon revealed that the three male students named Kennedy, Paul Aghama and Jeffery usually come to the shop when she wasn't around and took her to their room in their hostel where they took their turns to defile her.
“I
begin to question her and she then told me that whenever I am not in
the shop, these boys always took her away through the window to their
hostels to defile her. I took her to the Central Hospital Benin where
she was examined by a doctor and it was discovered that she had been
defiled and her hymen was already broken. I then reported the case at
the Aideyan Police Station, Benin City and from there it was transferred
to Esigie Police Station, the section in charge of defilement cases in
Benin. While
police officers at Esigie Police Station were carrying out discreet
investigation to unravel the intrigues behind the defilement as
instructed by the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. James Ezike, the
suspects and their cohorts concocted a frivolous petition to the office
of the AIG, Zone 5.”she said
Mrs
Eghobamien said while the suspects under investigation by the state
Police Command were in detention, some officials of the School of
Nursing approached her, asking her to withdraw the case from the police.
Her refusal cost her her shop in the school premises and she was also
deprived of removing her wares in the her shop since then. She
said that her life was threatened and following the boasting from the
suspects that they have some powerful individuals, who would use their
positions to influence the Office of the AIG, Zone 5 investigating the
case to give them a safe landing. This prompted her to contact a Benin
based legal practitioner, Olayiwola Afolabi, who immediately petitioned
the Inspector General of Police,
Mr. Solomon Arase, over the matter. In the petition, her lawyer
appealed to the IGP to allow an independent panel of police
investigators in- charge of defilement matters other than those from the
office of the AIG Zone 5 to conduct fresh investigation into
the,matter.
According
to Mr Afolabi, certain powerful persons had used their positions to
influence the office of the AIG, Zone 5 to sweep the heinous crime under
the carpet and more so, cases of r*pe fall under the purview of the
state Police Command.
“To
our greatest chagrin, our client was told that the said investigation
report contains among other things that her daughter, who is only six
years old is the one responsible for her broken hymen by using
instruments to penetrate her vagina; this fact only points to one
direction, that the boasting of the suspects was true. The
curious thing about this matter is that while the case was pending at
AIG Zone 5, Ministry of Health officers that oversee the School of
Nursing called our client to come with her daughter that was defiled.
After our client and her daughter had made statement to them, they began
to ask her what exactly she wanted with the case at the AIG Zone 5,
using her words. We have laboured
to bring before the Inspector General of Police the various intrigues
associated with this case due to the fact that the family of the victim
has no money but we believe the Inspector General of Police is only our
hope in this matter,” he said.
The
Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, has received their petition
and has asked for a fresh investigation into the matter which is to be
handled by the Edo state Commissioner of Police, Chris Ezkike, through
his Principal Staff Officer, Idowu Owohunwa (ACP).
Source: Vanguard
Source: Vanguard
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