Two men identified as Damilare Oyeniyi, 30, and Emmanuel Okori, 20 have been arrested by the Ogun state police command for allegedly gang-raping a 19-year-old girl and filming her nude.
The suspects who committed the crime on December 12, 2020, in the Sango area of the state was arrested four days later by policemen attached to the Sango Divisional Police Station.
Ogun police spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi said the suspects were arrested following a report lodged at the Sango Police Station by the victim who is their neighbour.
Oyeyemi said “Upon the report, the DPO Sango Division, CSP Godwin Idehai, detailed his detectives to go after the suspects and bring them to book. The investigative effort of the detectives paid off on December 16, 2020, when the duo was eventually arrested. On interrogation, the two suspects confessed to the crime. They confessed that they videoed her nude, which they used to threaten her not to report or else the video would be posted on social media. The state Commissioner of Police, Edward Ajogun, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to the Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Labour Unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation and prosecution.”