Young girls allegedly raped by notorious tout narrate ordeal

• Published date: 21 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

Two girls allegedly raped by a notorious hoodlum in Orile Agege area of Lagos on their way home a few weeks ago have demanded justice, just as outraged residents urge the police to arrest and prosecute the suspect and his gang members, KUNLE AKINRINADE reports.

The alleged rape of two female workers of a betting firm by a hoodlum in Orile Agege, a Lagos suburb, has sparked an outrage.

The two female sales representatives of a betting franchise company are crying out for justice over the inability of the police to apprehend the suspect identified as Kola a.k.a. Federal, who was alleged to have violently defiled them on December 27, 2022.

The two girls (names withheld) had closed from work and were returning home around 10pm when the suspected rapist and his gang ambushed and raped them.

'What happened was that we closed from work around 10 pm on Olurinde Street, Orile Agege, Lagos and crossed over to Amoo Road and trekked to get a commercial motorcycle otherwise called okada while our boss waited to see that we moved out of the vicinity,' one of the victims, a 23-year-old, said.

'When we flagged down an okada operator, we didn't know that a young man who had earlier visited our office to charge his phone was still lurking around in the adjoining axis of the road.

'He suddenly emerged from the dark with a machete and threatened to attack the okada man we had flagged down, prompting the motorcyclist to flee out of fear.

'We then decided to trek some distance in order to get another okada operator around Amoo Street when Kola a.k.a. Federal and his boys attacked and brutalised us.

'We were begging them but they held us down with weapons and scared away those who intervened and tried to dissuade them from molesting us.'

The victims said Kola and his boys turned down their pleas and led them to a makeshift building near the suspect's family house where they were raped until close to midnight.

'He started raining curses on us and said that he would rape us and nothing would happen. We begged him and his boys not to carry out their threats but they refused.

'He then ordered that we be taken by his boys to his family house on Adejobi Street, Orile Agege where a lot of hemp smokers were binging and raped my friend while his boys held me down with machetes.

'When he was done with my colleague, his boy dragged me into the dingy room and he raped me too.

'He and his boys then seized all the items and started mocking us, saying that we were stinking and had not been having our...