It was a sad end for 22 year-old Deborah (surname withheld), a
300-level student of Benson Idahosa University, Benin-City, after the girl,
said to be a virgin, was raped to death by yet to be identified persons in
Benin-City, Edo State capital. The rapists cut her throat after the dastardly
act. The family of the deceased has appealed to the Police Command in Edo State
to fish out the culprits and bring them to book.
Deborah was said to have been raped between 12 midnight and 1
a.m after she left hospital and decided to see one of her friends
at Upper Adesuwa. It was then the rapists allegedly caught up with her.
Meanwhile, Edo State Police Commissioner, Mr Funso Adebanjo, said the command
was investigating the matter. An elder sister of the deceased, Jean, who spoke
to Sunday Vanguard, lamented that her sister was killed after she was raped.
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She narrated the story: “On Thursday, she came to my house
saying she needed some money but I could not give her. She told me she
was leaving but I did not know that she had a plan to sell her Blackberry
phone. I think while she was saying that, someone had compassion and asked why
she would want to sell her Blackberry for that cheap price. So the person
removed his SIM card in one of his phones and gave her the phone. But, somehow,
she lost the phone and she had no means of communicating with anybody.
“On Friday morning, she was not feeling fine, so she went to
hospital. I got a call from a doctor who said my sister came there
without a family member and that she needed blood. “So I got in touch with my
mother; we looked for money and rushed to the hospital. But when we got to the
hospital, my sister was shouting and disturbing; so they said we should take
her to a church.
“My mother took her to a church. Later that night, she told my
mother she wanted to go back to the hospital and she left. I did not know she
went to hospital that night and, when she got there, she kept shouting
and disturbing people”.
According to the elder sister, the hospital people were angry
with Deborah and, at about 11pm that Friday, she left the Sickle Cell Hospital
at Golf Course Road for Upper Adesuwa. “How she walked to Upper Adesuwa that
night I just don’t know. There is this friend of hers that also visits us, she
went to their house,” Jean said. She continued: “They said she got there and
was knocking at the gate but nobody opened the gate. It was when she left the
gate that the assailants struck, raped her and slashed her throat. In the
morning, her friend started saying some body was knocking at the gate last
night and people said they saw a corpse somewhere outside the street. So they
ran to the place and found out it was my sister.
“But at about after 9pm that Friday, the cab driver that carried
my sister called me and said he wanted to know how she was doing, but I did not
know that my sister even went to hospital that night. I was in church
when my husband called me to say my sister had accident. It was later he
told me that she was dead. We went there and the police came to carry her
corpse. On Sunday evening, I went to Ugbor Police Station and made a statement.
But why I am worried is that I don’t know why the hospital people will allow
her to leave at about 11pm that day.
“The hospital people should produce the man who was
incharge that night. The police said they want to conduct post
mortem and that is where we are now. My sister was a 300-level
accounting and education student at the Benson Idahosa University and a virgin
for that matter. I am appealing to the police to find the killers. I don’t know
why they should allow her leave the hospital at that hour when they knew she
was not sound”.
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