How Another Teenage Student Was Raped, Killed In Her Home

Details of how another student, an 18-year-old girl was killed in her home after being raped by her attackers have emerged.

This is coming on the heels of the rape and battering of of 22-year-old Uwaila Omozuwa, 100-level Microbiology student of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) in her local church.

Report gathered by The Eagle shows that Uwaila Omozuwa was a regular face at The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Edo Province 10, Ikpoba Hill, Benin.

She eventually died from the attack.

In the latest incident, the victim, Barakat Bello, of the Federal College of Animal and Production Technology Moore Plantation, Apata, Ibadan, was also killed after she had been raped.

She was undertaking the National Diploma programme in Science Laboratory Technology, was reportedly attacked on June 1, 2020.

The Eagle correspondent gathered that incident happened in the Akinyele area of Ibadan, incidentally, the father Kasimu Elepo who provided details of the gruesome attack said neither him, not the victim’s sister was around when it happened.

How both incidents happened have been a source of worry to observers.

 “I was not at home when the incident happened. The younger sister was not at home too, she went for Qur’anic lessons but when she returned home, she saw her at the back of the house with deep cuts all over her body. She had been raped and killed.

“Somebody called me on the telephone that I should come home but he refused to tell me what happened. When I got home, I saw that my daughter had been raped and stabbed to death.”

Sadly, it was the sister that later discovered Barakat’s body at the back of the house in a pool of blood when she returned from Qur’anic lessons.

The deceased, who was a member of the Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria, was buried on Tuesday according to Islamic rites.

Reacting to the matter, the Police Public Relations Officer, Oyo State Police Command, Olugbenga Fadeyi, said in a telephone interview that the incident had not been reported.

“Effort is being intensified to confirm the credibility of the report. At present, the Divisional Police Officers, Oluyole, and Apata divisions were contacted but we found out that the address that was quoted is not correct.

“When I got the DPOs and I inquired, the two of them said at present, there is no such report in their record.

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“It is very funny when some people are too much in a haste to post such things even if it happened truly. I am not saying it happened because our records have not shown that.

“But, let’s assume it happened, the family is supposed to make an official report; that is another problem.”, he was quoted by Punch as saying.

The two incidents have added to the poser as to why and how incidents of the nature have become rampant in our society.

Most people are at a loss how a rapist would go ahead to kill his victim after successfully having his way. Could there be other reasons other than the desire for sex?