Another herbalist arrested for rape in Kwara
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A Magistrate Court in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Tuesday held the trial of Ibadan-based herbalist and social media influencer, Sultan Ojuwoni Atakoro and Olaitan, Ibrahim Olalekan, at the Correctional Services Center in Okekura, Ilorin. He ordered the case to be remanded until January 17th. 2024.
They were arraigned by the Kwara State Police Command before Justice Kolawole Aluko on charges of rape and arson.
According to the Police First Information Report (FIR), Atakoro, at his shrine in Ibadan, Oyo State, conspired with one Olalekan and one Omowunmi and their children, who are currently in the hospital, to attack a 21-year-old girl. He said he serially raped Firdaos Jimou and set him on fire. big.
The suspects are accused of criminal conspiracy, unlawful trial, rape, inciting grievous bodily harm by dangerous means, and conviction, contrary to Articles 97, 214, 283, and 229 of the Penal Code. He was charged with attempted murder.
Justice Kolawole Aluko also did not accept the suspect's plea when the FIR was read out, but said the court had no jurisdiction to deal with the crime charged.
However, he listened to the submissions of the prosecution and the second accused's counsel and subsequently ordered the suspects to be remanded and adjourned the case till January 17, 2024 for mention.
The magistrate declared that the offenses with which the suspects were charged were generally non-bailable.
According to the FIR, the matter was brought to the attention of the Kwara State Police Command, Ilorin University on November 30, 2023 at about 2:30 pm through a petition by Mr. Hassan A. Gobir, representing Hajia Kadijat Ayinke Jimoh of No. Reported to Urban Area Commander. 38 Ifesowapo, Itaelepa, Asa A dam in Ilorin, the state capital.
The FIR reveals that sometime in July 2023, the complainant entrusted his daughter Firdaus Jimoh, who was studying fashion and design, to the suspect and Omounmi Ahmed, with the promise that they would take good care of her. I made it.
However, things took a turn when Omowunmi, who is now on the run, told the complainant that unidentified persons had stolen gold jewelery worth N800,000.
Omowunmi conspired with his three daughters to deceive the victim, Firdaus Jimoh, by falsely claiming that he would use spiritual means to find the person who had stolen the money, and sent her to Sultan Ojuwoni Atakoro in Ibadan. It is said that he was taken to a shrine.
The FIR further states that Sultan Atakoro “placed a gourd in front of Firdaus Jimoh, forced her to kneel naked, poured flammable substances on her body, and began chanting several spells, which caused her entire body to be destroyed”. “I burned it,” he claimed.
“You also inserted objects into her private parts and raped her twice in that painful condition. Your actions caused her serious injury by egregious and dangerous means.”
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Source: dailypost.ng