The Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, has confirmed that the case of a rape allegation involving a Lagos policeman has been resolved.
The FPRO who did not give further details, referred our reporter to the Lagos State Police Command for an update.
In June, a police officer attached to the Ogudu Police Station, Ojota, Lagos, was accused of raping a 17-year-old girl (name withheld).
It was gathered that the officer identified simply as Owolabi had promised to help the teenager retrieve her phone, which had been taken by ‘one chance’ robbers on June 16 while she, her grandmother, and her siblings were returning from Ikeja.
The suspect reportedly overheard the teenager recounting her ordeal to her mother at her shop and offered to help track her missing phone and take her statement.
“On June 29, Officer Owolabi called my mum on her phone and told her he had arrested the person with my phone and my mum should send me to his police station and I went there. On getting there, I was told they made a mistake with the tracking, and that the person caught wasn’t the one with my phone.
“The officer sent his personal assistant to call me into his office and he showed me directions there. When I entered his office and greeted him, he replied and got up to lock the door and put the key in his pocket. I shouted, ‘Sir, why did you lock the door?’
“He started trying to pull my clothes off and I shouted, then he brought out a gun, cocked it, and threatened to shoot me if I shouted. Then he began harassing me and when I struggled with him he hit me on the back of my head with the gun and raped me.
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“I saw his phone ringing and the caller was my mum, but he told me since I didn’t have a phone with me, I should tell her I didn’t get to his office and from now on I should be reporting at his office by 12 pm every day during school break or while returning from school that he had been watching me for two years and now I just fell into his trap,” the distraught victim told our correspondent.
The mother of the victim, Mrs Aramide Olupona, said her daughter began bleeding a day following the assault and was taken to the Mirabel Centre, adding that the incident was also reported to the authorities.
In July, the police in Lagos said they had begun investigation into the case.
The command’s Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, in a statement also disclosed that the officer whose identity was yet to be disclosed had been taken into custody.
When asked for an update about the incident in November, the FPRO, said, “The (Lagos) command has addressed the one (case) allegedly involving the 17-year-old lady.”
Meanwhile, the Lagos PPRO Hundeyin has not responded to calls and chats as of the time of filing this report.
The Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 2, Onikan, Adegoke Fayoade, said in September that the rape allegation involving the Lagos policeman was receiving adequate attention.
Fayoade, who was recently promoted to the rank of AIG and deployed to Zone 2, Lagos, is the immediate past Commissioner of Police in Lagos.
