A teacher with the Ebenezer Grammar, Iberekodo, Abeokuta, in Ogun State, Lateef Olaniran, has been arrested for allegedly raping a young woman. The state’s Commissioner…
A teacher with the Ebenezer Grammar, Iberekodo, Abeokuta, in Ogun State, Lateef Olaniran, has been arrested for allegedly raping a young woman.
The state’s Commissioner for Women Affairs, Adijat Olaleye, disclosed this on Wednesday.
She said the suspect was arrested on Saturday when a member of her team got a call from young woman reporting that she had been raped.
She explained that her ministry swung into action and located the victim and ran laboratory tests on her before she was led to the police station to make a report.
She further said, “We thereafter went with the police to the suspect’s home, but after several knocks, he refused to open the gate. We were able to locate the brother to the house owner who assisted us in gaining access to the compound.
“We also heard a girl’s cry for help, and with the support of the police, we caught Mr Olaniran Lateef Adewale,’’ the commissioner said.
She added that the girl crying in the teacher’s room during his arrest also accused him of “forcibly having sexual intercourse with her and threatening to kill her if she did not ask her family to send him money.”
When contacted, the police spokesperson in the state, Omolola Odutola, promised to get back to our correspondent.
