Operatives of a neighbourhood security outfit, Oluyole Security Network have arrested a bricklayer and an operator of a commercial motorcycle otherwise called okada for allegedly raping and impregnating a 14-year-old teenager in Ibadan, Oyo.
One of the suspects, Sodeeq Ojediran, admitted forcibly sleeping with the girl.
According to report, the 30-year-old bricklayer tricked the minor to his house where he raped her.
Also explaining his complicity in the saga, the second suspect, 27-year-old Okebukola, a commercial motorcycle operator, said she met the victim in December 2023 and asked her to be his girlfriend.
“She declined my request to know her parents and I took her to my house where she spent one week with me.
“My landlord was not happy about the fact that she is a teenager. So he asked me to send her away from my house.
“She came back to me two Sundays ago and I made love to her again.
“I didn’t ask for her hand in marriage and I did not deflower her at all, but I slept with her.
“I am an okada operator and she boarded my motorbike in Ayegun area of Ibadan.
“She was to pay N300 as fare but instead, she paid me N200. I stirred a conversation with her and collected her mobile phone number.
“Three days later, I told her to come with me to a church for prayers. But instead of taking her to a church, I took her to my house where I slept with her.
“However, I did not sleep with her every day, but she is carrying a two-month pregnancy,” he disclosed.
On her part, the victim said she stopped schooling after her father died.
She recalled that her father was the first to sleep with her when she was younger, after which she left home.
“I was in Primary 6 when my father died and I stopped going to school since then.
“My mother is the one that ruined my life because after my father was buried, everyone told my mother to use part of the cash gifts given to her by sympathisers to send me to school but she refused.
“Instead, she took me to the home of her first child from her previous marriage,” she narrated.
