An 11 years old girl named Favour Okechukwu was reportedly raped to death by some unknown people in an abandoned building erected under Powerline at Olarewaju Street, Ejigbo Lagos.
Control TV gathered that the deceased who is a Junior Secondary School 3 student was sent on an errand by her mother, by 3 p.m, but didn’t return home until she was found dead in the building.
The deceased Father, Mr Okechukwu who upon getting home couldn’t get a glimpse of his daughter opted to search around the community. To his dismay, Favour’s corpse was found in a building few walks away from her home.
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She was said to have been lured into a building on Olarewaju street, where four men took turns to rape her. She was suspected to have been gaged in the process, presumably to avoid raising that alarm.
Reports gathered revealed that Favour was discovered naked with bloodstains all over her lifeless body.
Upon sight, Mrs Okechukwu was traumatized and couldn’t speak to anyone, but Mr John Okechukwu managed to speak while in tears.
He said: ” I was shocked when my wife said Favour hadn’t returned from where she was to collect a carton of the gala(snack) because it was unusual of her to stay long outside. I went to three of her classmate’s houses to look for her but they all said they didn’t see her. I was walking like a mad man, asking everyone I saw about her whereabout and it was getting dark.
” I saw a man who lives on the same street with me and told him I was looking for my daughter. He informed that he had to close early because a little girl was raped to death in a building close to his shop.
” I decided to go and check since I was looking for my daughter and he accompanied me to the building. Behold, when I got there, it was my daughter, Favour! She laid motionless. I shouted, shook her vigorously as I called out her name, begging her to wake up. But she didn’t respond.
I was too shocked to believe she was gone just like that. A child I left hale and hearty while leaving the house in the morning, was gone when I returned”, he said in tears.
He, therefore, appealed to anyone with information on the fleeing assailants to avail such to the police, in order for her to get justice.
Lamenting he said: ” Favour was full of life. She was very brilliant. All I want is for the perpetrators of this devilish act to be brought to book”.
Meanwhile, the chairman of Ejigbo LCDA, Hon. Monsuru Bello Obe who visited the scene of the incident vowed that all illegal shanties in the community would be demolished especially, buildings under the powerline.
He charged the Community Development Association (CDA) to be on the alert to ensure they work with the security agents and the local government in order to eradicate criminality within the area while promising that measures will be taken to ensure that the culprits are brought to book.
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