Five secondary school students aged between 16 and 17 in Oyo State have been arrested by the state Command of the Amotekun Corps, a local security outfit, for allegedly gang raping female students inside bush.
The five students were Mayowa, 17; Joshua, 16; Seun, 17; Sunday, 16 and Basit, 17 with two of them, Seun and Sunday, from the same mother but different fathers.
The female students who were four and from another school had visited Ejioku Community Grammar School where the male students were schooling.
They were allegedly ambushed by the male students who dragged them into the bush and gangraped them.
According to the second in command of the corps, Kazeem Babalola Akinro, the incident was reported to the corps leading to the arrest of the boys, adding that there have been incessant cases of rape committed in the past by male students of the school.
The principal was also reported to have warned them severally and had informed parents at the Parent-Teacher Association meetings to warn their male children.
The girls were chased into the bush by one of the students who used his motorcycle to chase them into where the other four were lying in wait without the knowledge of the girls.
With no one to come to their aid, the boys pounced on the girls and started raping them.
Among the victims was a 14-year old virgin who had her hymen forcefully broken after she was gangraped by three of the students. The boys also recorded the incident as the girl was writhing in pain while being forcefully deflowered.
While parents of three of the girls failed to report the incident to the police, the mother of the 14-year old who was in SSS 3 class and had lost her father, brought the attention of a female lawyer, Barrister Modupe Aderemi, to the incident who in turn interviewed her and reported to the Amotekun Corps.
Despite her begging one of the boys, Mayowa, to stop because of the pain and that she had not known a man, Mayowa allegedly held her on her neck with his hands and shouted at her to raise her legs.
Narrating how they raped the girls, Mayowa said: “What happened was that we had finished our exams, and when that happens, students usually go to other schools around them to play with fellow students.
Some female students came to our school on Thursday, December 5. Four of the female students got near our school’s field and we went to them. Our Principal and teachers were in their offices while we were on the field.”
He added: “One of us, Basit, knew one of the girls. We deceived them into believing that other students were playing on the school farm, volunteering to take them there. Usually, we used to play on the farm, with colleagues, tying ropes on two close trees and swinging on them.
“The girls followed us, but we had the motive of sleeping with them. On getting there, we told them that we wanted to have a sexual relationship with them. We picked them one by one and took them to different spots on the farm, laid them on their backs on the grass and raped them.
“I didn’t know what others were doing at their own corners. When the girl with me didn’t want to yield, I told her that another boy would pick her up if she tried to run away, asking her to do the ‘normal’ with me. I asked her to remove her underwear and mounted her. It was difficult penetrating her because of her virginity, so I just ejaculated at the entry and got up.
“One of us, Joshua, decided to go for her also but also didn’t achieve penetration. Another boy wanted to do the same but I refused him. He was the one who started recording me and the girl during the sex session. Basit came and wanted to do his own thing but I told him the girl was a virgin. That was when he used his finger to break her hymen by poking her.
“This is my second time. I did the first one with a girl in my neighbourhood. She was my girlfriend. I started dating her a year ago. I told her that I wanted to sleep with her and she gave me a date. We did it on the date she gave me.”
In his version of the incident, Joshua, who was one of the boys, also claimed he heard some voices in the field beside the school where he had gone to ease himself beside the tree.
He further claimed that on approaching the direction where the voices were coming from, he saw one of the girls, who later happened to be the 14-year old, pleading to be left and not to be ejaculated in. He also said he saw some of the boys around the girl who asked he if he was interested in joining them to rape the girl.
Joshua said initially he refused but was encouraged by the boys to do it.
The other two boys, Seun, and SSS1 student and Basit, an SSS 3 student also confessed taking part in the escapade.
According to the female lawyer, Modupe Owonikoko, her Foundation has taken up the matter and promised to make sure the suspects face justice to serve as a deterrent to others who might want to commit such an act.
The case has been transferred to the Oyo State command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps for further investigation.