Lasun Alagbe
Another young Nigerian lady has recounted how she was gang-raped in 2018.
According to the lady identified as Omowumi, the criminals forced her to take Tramadol and Codeine before forcing themselves on her one after the other.
In an interview with ‘Channels Television’, she noted that it was a friend of hers who took her to the arena where she was raped.
Omowumi, however, said she was not keen on getting the guys punished.
Saying the men increased the volume of the music being played in the apartment so no one would hear her cry for help, she narrated (sic):
”They were playing music. They loud it so high that nobody will hear even if I am shouting and that my friend was there.
“They started beating me, insisting that I should take Tramadol and Codeine. I was like why will you force me to take it, that I cannot take it. They started beating me.
“Since they are much and there power is much, I took the Tramadol and Codeine. I became unconcious, I did not know what happened.
“All I knew is that they undressed me and they slept with me. They were much inside that room.
“Then I was a virgin so blood was very much to the extent that they even washed my clothes.
”I want but at a point, you have to think back, let me just forgive them. It’s because it’s been delayed so there is nothing we can do. They had the opportunity to come to our house to beg since then. There is nothing we can do. We just have to let them go.”
The outcry against rape is growing as its incidence is multiplying by the day.
Only on Wednesday, the Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen, attributed the rise to the lockdown, saying the abusers and the victims were being locked down together.
