Ebenezer Adeshina, 25 years, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for raping and blackmailing a 16 year old girl.
According to DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the
Police Public Relations Officer of the state, the suspect was arrested on the 6th of May 2022, following a report lodged at Owode Egbado Divisional Headquarters by the victim, who reported that she met the suspect on Facebook sometime in 2021, and that they have been chatting since then.
She stated further that her phone got spoilt along the line, and she couldn’t chat with the suspect again.
The victim said in the month of March this year, the suspect called her and asked why she didn’t chat with him anymore and that she informed him of her spoilt phone.
She said the suspect there and then asked her to come to his house to collect the sum of three thousand naira for the repair of the phone.
On getting there, the suspect offered her a drink which she took, unknown to her that the drink has been laced with a sedative drug adding that immediately she took the drink, she became unconscious and the suspect used the opportunity to have unlawful carnal knowledge of her against her wish.
After having sex with her in the state of unconsciousness, the suspect took her nude pictures and started threatening to upload the pictures on social media if she didn’t pay him the sum of fifty thousand naira.
Acting on the report, the DPO, Owode Egbado Division, CSP Muhammad S Baba, detailed his detectives to go after the suspect who was eventually apprehended and has confessed to the committing the crime.
DSP Oyeyemi said the commissioner of police, CP Lanre Bankole, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to anti human trafficking and child labour unit of the state Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation and possible prosecution.
