‘He promised to help me retrieve my stolen phone but raped me inside police station,’ Teenage narrates ‘ordeal’ with senior officer

A senior police officer identified as Owolabi and attached to the Ogudu Police Station in Ojota area of Lagos State has allegedly raped a 17-year-old teenager in his office.

According to reports, the victim’s ordeal began after her  phone was stolen by ‘one chance’ robbers.

The suspect (police officer) was said to have overheard the victim narrating her travail to her mother at her shop and offered to help track the phone.

He then promised to help the teenager retrieve her phone, from the criminals who stole it.

But unknown to the girl, the suspect had other plans and ulterior motive that did not include helping the girl retrieve her phone.

According to the victim, the officer simply identified as Owolabi committed the heinous act after he lured her to his office with the false information of her phone recovery.

Narrating her ordeal to The Punch, the teenager said: “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.

“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.”

Mrs Aramide Olupona, mother of the victim, however, accused the police of trying to cover up the allegation.

“The suspect’s wife and the rest of his family have come to my shop to plead with me saying he would soon retire, but what about my daughter that was raped? Is it because I am a poor woman?”

“The Area Commander of the station too invited me and pleaded with me to bury the case, now they are saying the suspect has fled and his whereabouts are unknown, but my daughter is distraught and has said she wants to commit suicide. My girl needs justice,” she was quoted to have said.