I never in my widest dream imagined my three friends could gang rape me

ONE OF THE RAPIST

Firstclass newsline~In an act, which has shocked residents of a
neighbourhood in Iju area of Lagos, three friends – Habeeb Adisa (25),
Kehinde Aderinoye (25) and Ilyas Ogundimu (27) – have raped one of
their female neighbours, a young woman,who is their close friend in
the neighbourhood.
The victim, 19-year-old Adenike (not real name), a hair stylist,
volunteered to speak with a source saying she summoned the courage to
speak about her ordeal because she did not want them to go free and do
the same to someone else.
Narrating how she was violated by the three men whom she trusted most
in their neighbourhood, Adenike told firstclass newsline that not once
did she suspect within the two years she knew them that they had such
a heinous plan for her.
Calmly, but with a lot of anger and pain showing in her eyes, Adenike
said, "I became friends with them as neighbours two years ago when my
mother first rented an apartment in the area.
"Kehinde began to make advances to me. But I told him we were friends
and did not want to be in a relationship with him. I have always
rejected his advances.
"Later he would tell Habeeb and Ilyas to approach me to appeal on his
behalf to accept his proposal, but I made them to understand that I
could not go out with him. But we still talked and sat together in the
neighbourhood as friends."
Unknown to Adenike, the gentle disposition of her three friends was
just a façade for the plan they had hatched on how to sexually assault
her.
On Wednesday, June 17, 2015, an opportunity presented itself for the
rapist friends to put their plan to work.
Adenike said, "In the morning of that day, around 9.30am, I went over
Kehinde's house like I usually did sometimes when I had nothing to do
at home. I trusted them completely and usually went there to while
away the time.
"Habeeb and Ilyas were there also. We were just talking when Habeeb
suddenly came to me and picked me up. He threw me on the bed and I
told him that I didn't like that kind of play. I said, 'If this is
part of your playful habit I am not up for it.'
"But as he threw me on the bed, before I could stand up, he lay on me
and pinned me down firmly. Kehinde quickly came over and started to
remove my underwear. That was when I knew what they wanted to do. I
struggled with them but they pinned me down and took turns to rape me.
Adisa
"When I was screaming, one of them quickly went to the CD player,
which was on at the time and turned on the music to maximum volume so
that it would drown out my voice."
When they finished, the three friends smiled in relish, it was learnt.
They told their prey to pretend that what happened to her was a mere
sexual encounter.
"They told me to just forget what happened and keep it between the
four of us. But I realised that if I was afraid of stigma and kept it
to myself, they would walk free and even boast to their friends about
what they did to me. They would surely do it to someone else," Adenike
said.
Bruised and battered, Adenike summoned the courage to approach someone
she trusted in the neighbourhood and narrated what happened to her.
She was immediately advised to go to the Iju Police Division and
report the incident.
As soon as she reported, some landlords in the area rose in the men's defence.
Adenike's mother said that because the parents of the rapists are
landlords in the area, they first threatened her that if she decided
to make the issue a police case, she would lose.
But on Thursday, after the police had arrested the suspects, a source
witnessed as families of the culprits and other residents of the area
came out to the police station to beg Adenike's mother.
Adenike's case highlights the increasing incidence of sexual offences
in Nigeria, where majority of sexual offences go unreported.
On Friday, the spokesperson for the Lagos State Police Command, Mr.
Kenneth Nwosu, a source that the suspects had been charged to court.
Firstclassnewsline.net