For
refusing the love advances of some hoodlums in her neighbourhood, a 14-year-old
Obiamaka Orakwue has been raped and killed in Lagos.
The Junior Secondary School (JSS) student was attacked by some
boys, who scaled the fence into her parent’s Abule Ado residence while she was
at home.
It was gathered that the incident occurred on July 10 and the
deceased was buried last Friday at the Berger cemetery.
The news of her death caused outrage on social media on
Thursday, with many demanding that the perpetrators be fished out and served
maximum punishment.
From
the information posted online, her distraught parents said those who attacked
the teenager left her in a pool of her blood.
Obiamaka’s mother, Mrs. Orakwue said she was contacted by some
of their neighbours, who saw the boys jumping out of their compound.
She said the neighbours called her after they knocked on the
gate to be sure she was safe but got no response.
The woman said she left her place of work immediately and rushed
home only to find her daughter gasping for breath with blood in her private
part.
She said: “I was at work when I got a call from our neighbor
that they saw some boys jumping out from the fence of our compound. They said
my daughter was not responding to knocks on the gate and it was locked from
inside.
“I was worried because my daughter was the only one at home. Her
other siblings were on holidays at my elder brother’s place in Lekki.
“On
getting to the house, I opened the gate with my spare key and dashed into the
room only to find my daughter gasping for breath in a pool of her blood. I
asked her what happened and all she could mutter was, Mummy, those boys I told
you about.
“It must have been the same boys that took advantage of the fact
that I and my husband went to work and gained entry into the compound through
the back fence of the house where they attacked my daughter.”
Her father, Chinedu Orakwue, said: “We told her to join her
siblings at Lekki but she insisted she wanted to stay at home to help with the
house chores. Now see what has happened. I leave it in the hands of God to
judge.
“We have reported the incident to the police and they promised
to apprehend the culprits but we still have not heard from them till date.
“She was a very intelligent child and had a bright future. She
was to enter JSS III by the next academic session.”
When contacted, the spokesman of the Lagos State Police Command,
Olarinde Famous-Cole, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), said: “I
will have to get back to you with details on that story as I am in contact with
the DPO to confirm that information.”
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