The cup of iniquity of two alleged robbers in Edo State spilled over lately when the photographic memory of their victim became their nemesis as the woman led the police to their den.
Until they were nabbed by men of the Edo State Police Command, the two suspects identified as Augustine Ogbebor and Lucky Ekhator detained and raped their female victims for at least two days.
Their cookie began to crumble when they robbed a woman who was returning from the market at about 7.00pm in Benin City. They abducted the woman and took her to Ekhator’s home in the St. Saviour area of Benin City where she was robbed of her Blackberry handset and the sum of N28,000. Then they proceeded to rape and detain her for two days before she was released.
Not willing to sweep the ugly incident under the carpet, she summoned courage and filed a report at a police station. She gave a full description of the suspects to the police.
Acting on this information, a police swat team raided the house and arrested Ogbebor and Ekhator.
Edo State Commissioner of Police, Mr Foluso Adebanjo, who narrated the incident to Sunday Sun, further revealed that the two suspects had for long been involved in several armed robberies noting that they always detained and raped their female victims. He said the suspects made useful confessions on their involvement in several armed robberies. .
Somewhat filled with regret that their bubble had burst, one of the suspects, Ogbebor, who hails from Benin City said “We didn’t know that she could identify the house where we raped and detained her for two days. It was there that the police came to arrest us.”
Ogbebor also recalled another incident involving a woman they robbed as she was returning from church adding that their effort was a dry run as they did not get any money from her.
“We abducted the woman thinking that she had money with her. It was afterwards we found out she only had a bible. We then took her to Ekhator’s house where we raped and detained her for two days before releasing her.
Sunday Sun gathered that their evil business of detaining and raping female victims began in 2012 after cutting their teeth as robbers.
“We started with robbery and later decided to be raping our victims and detaining them in our house for at least two days,” Ogbebor said.
While corroborating Ogbebor, Ekhator however said “We didn’t use guns, we only used a knife to scare our victims into submission before robbing them of their personal effects.”
Adebanjo said the two suspects who were arrested on October 5, 2013 would soon appear in court to answer for their crimes after investigation is concluded.
The Sun
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