When other young ladies would be
flaunting the new additions to their
wardrobe this yuletide, 23-year-old
Ngozi Okoye (real name concealed)
will be sad and bemoaning the evil fate
that befell her just days before Christmas.
Shapely Ngozi, a native of Ogidi, Idemili
North Local Government Area,
Anambra State, who had vowed to go
into marriage as a virgin, was brutally
raped by her elder brother’s best friend on December 16, 2013, leaving
her shattered into a 1000 pieces like
the windshield of a car, her virgin
blood spilled and highly treasured
virtue forever taken by a scoundrel.
Even more pathetic is the fact that she escaped the mayhem of Boko Haram in
troubled Bauchi State, only to be
savaged by the foul, filthy hands and
mind of a son-of-the-devil lurking at
home, in the heart of Igboland. For her
the rape experience is like a case of running from frying pan into fire.
Ngozi’s taste of hell on earth began
on Monday, December 16, when she
went to her shop behind the Obosi
Town hall, Obosi, also in Idemili North
LGA to do her normal business of running a beer palour with her elder
brother, which he set up to survive the
hard times after relocating home in the
wake of the incessant Boko Haram
bombings in Bauchi. As if the devil was playing a one-
person chess game in which she was
the pawn, the evil being first sent the
woman that sold the shop to Ngozi’s
brother at the cost of N60,000, who
showed up to seek payment of the balance of N15,000 after the brother
had paid an initial sum of N45,000.
Recalling how she came into the
picture, Ngozi said: “My brother told
me about how people who came to the
shop always requested for fresh fish peppersoup and other delicacies. As I
had not found anything to do since we
returned from Bauchi, my brother
pleaded with me to join him in Obosi so
that I could be preparing the delicacies
and selling to customers who come to the shop to drink. When I came, we
started the business and it was still
trying to stand when one day, the
woman that sold the shop to my
brother came.
“She was doing the same business like us, so she left behind some plastic
chairs and a deep freezer. As my
brother could not afford to buy his own
freezer, we decided to be using the
woman’s own with her consent
anyway. Then one day, she told my brother to give her N20,000 so she
could leave the freezer for us. My
brother agreed; we were still trying to
raise money to pay for it and also
complete the payment for the shop
when she came on Monday to carry the freezer.”
“The day before, on Sunday, and I had
gone to the market and bought some
fresh fish and meat. I put these items in
the deep freezer for preservation. So
as I was about cleaning the shop the next day when the woman came and
began shouting on top of her voice that
she must take the freezer away. I was
still pleading and telling her I kept
something in the freezer when she
stormed out and returned in company with two men who I noticed were
commercial motorcyclists. She ordered
them to go into the shop and bring out
the freezer. They came in and threw
the fish, meat and every other item in
the freezer out and took it away.” Rapist appears, promising Greek gift
As Ngozi was lamenting over the
sudden turn of events that spoiled her
sales projections for the season, the
evil being moved another of his chess
pieces to act out his assigned role: the suspect, Tochukwu Nebo, popularly
called Baby Boy in Obosi showed up
with an offer to give Ngozi another
freezer to enable her to continue with
the business since her elder brother
happened to be his friend. Probably elated, she did not recognize the Greek
gift the son-of-the-devil was dangling
before her.
Her words: “I was still crying that my
last hope of continuing the business of
selling fresh fish and peppersoup had been aborted by the woman when she
took the deep freezer away. Then
Toochukwu (we call him Baby Boy)
who is my elder brother’s friend
came to me. I thought he came to help
me. There was a time he took refuge in our house when he was wanted for
something in Obosi. So he came to the
shop that Monday and tried to console
me, saying that I should stop crying. He
said he had three deep freezers; that
he would go home, consult his wife and then give me one to continue my
business. He left and after about one
hour later, he came back and told me
to follow him to his house so that we
could discuss with his wife. I said I
would wait for my brother to return first since the shop was not mine
alone.
He became angry and started shouting
at me, trying to force me to follow him.
By that time it was already getting
dark. Then he raised his shirt and showed me a pistol tucked into his
waist band and ordered me to remain
silent, and threatened to shoot me if I
said anything or shouted. I still insisted
I would not go with him on a waiting
motorcycle. He brought out a cutlass and as I tried to hold his hand and save
myself, the sharp edge of the blade cut
my hand. I was bleeding profusely and
began to shout for help but nobody
came to my rescue because Baby Boy
is notorious in the community. Whenever anybody came and saw that
it was between Baby Boy and a girl,
they just left without saying or doing
anything. He continued dragging me
until I got on the motorcycle. When we
got to his house at Akwasi-Ire village, Obosi, directly opposite the home of
former Commonwealth Secretary
General, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, he
stopped and pretended to make a call
after which he said his wife said I must
come into the compound. I refused and said his wife should come out.
“At that point, he lifted and put me on
his shoulder and kicked the gate open
with his leg. The time was already
9.30pm. As I was crying for help, I
could hear people’s voices in the big building. It was fully occupied by
tenants but nobody came to my
rescue. He took me straight to his
bedroom, threw me on the bed and
left. When he left, I tried to escape, but
discovered that he locked the room. Shortly after he returned and brought
out the gun, pointed it at me and
ordered me to undress. I refused and
he pounced on me, tore my pant. A
struggle ensued between us but being
stronger than myself, he overpowered me and tried to force himself inside
me. At that moment, I tried to calm him
down, telling him I was still a virgin.
Initially, he broke into laughter and
said that the only way to know that a
23-year- old girl is still a virgin is by testing it himself.
“He looked around and saw a key
holder with an opener. He brought it
close to the bed and started beating
me because I didn’t to his evil desire.
Then he tied my long hair which I just plaited before that day to the iron rods
of burglary proof at the window; he
tied my two legs separately with white
rope to the iron bar in the room before
he forced the key holder into my
private part as his manhood could not penetrate. Immediately, blood oozed
out. He was shocked and tried to stop
the flow with my pant that he had torn.
The pain was so excruciating that I
passed out.
“When I regained consciousness, I saw myself on the bare floor in his
room alone in the pool of my own
blood with water gushing out of my
body. I noticed then that he had tried to
use water to bring me back to
consciousness. It was at that moment that he told me that he was surprised
to see that I was truly a virgin at my
age. He said that in Obosi, at 14 years,
all the girls had known men. I thought
he had come back to his senses but
shortly after saying that with the gun pointing at my forehead, he began
raping me again. After several hours of
battling for life I pretended to have
passed out again. He ran out and came
back in the company with another guy
who came into the room and discovered I was still breathing. I
overhead him telling Baby Boy that I
was still alive.
YEAR“While they were still discussing
outside, I picked up my phone, tried to
call my brother but I had only N3 credit left; he called me back but before I
could answer him, Baby Boy heard my
voice and rushed into the room; he
saw me holding a phone, it was ringing
but I couldn’t pick it because he was
so furious and was ready to kill me. He snatched the phone and saw it was my
brother calling, he took it and held it
until it stopped ringing. He ordered me
to pick it the second time and tell my
brother whatever he told me to say.
With gun pointing at my head, he said I should tell my brother that it was very
late, so he took me home to stay with
his wife and I was in the same room
with his wife. I said so thinking he was
going to release me. Shortly after that,
my brother called him on his own phone and he didn’t pick it. Later he
started begging me not to tell anyone
about the incident. He took some of my
hair strands that cut off when he tied
my braid to the iron bar and my blood-
soaked pant and put them in a pit toilet in his compound. It was at that time
that I told him to take me back to the
shop so that my brother would not
notice. He said it was a good idea. As
we were going to the shop, he
promised me give me the deep freezer for free and N10,000 if I kept the
incident secret. I said yes and he
dropped me and went back to his
house. Moreover, a woman who
introduced herself to me on the phone
as his wife promised to give me N100, 000 if I withdrew the complaint. Well, I
have told all these things to the
security agents.
“I didn’t know that when I spoke to
my brother before my credit finished
that he heard part of what I said and quickly called one woman who is our
neighbour in the shop who confirmed
that when the incident started at the
shop, that she thought it was armed
robbery and she quickly closed her
shop and then called the Obosi Vigilance Service who came in the
morning and surrounded the shop.
They were shouting open this door,
open this door. When I opened it, I saw
security men and I told them my story
and along the line, I fainted.” The Obosi monarch reacts
When contacted at his palace, Obosi
monarch, Igwe Chidubem Iweka told
Sunday Sun that when the news
filtered into the palace, he quickly
ordered the Obosi Vigilance Group to go after the suspect who, he said, had
been a thorn in their flesh. Fortunately,
when the suspect was arrested, men
of the State Security Services, SSS were
on patrol in the community and he was
quickly handed over to the SSS, where it is believed he had made useful
confessional statements.
Igwe Iweka said the community would
not tolerate anybody with questionable
character especially during and after
the yuletide, adding that the community in line with the already
good relationship with the state
government and all the security
agencies would ensure that criminals
are chased out of the community.
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