Five Secondary School Students Admit Raping Female Collegues

Five secondary school students from Ejioku Community Grammar School in Oyo State have confessed to allegedly assaulting and raping female students from another school.

The students were arrested by Amotekun Corps, Oyo State Command after information was received on the incident.

The students involved were identified as Mayowa, 17; Joshua, 16; Seun, 17; Sunday, 16 and Basit, 17 (surnames withheld). Two of them, Seun and Sunday, are from the same mother but different fathers.

During an interview with Tribune, the male students explained that they lured the girls to the school farm under false pretences, claiming that other students were gathered there.

One of the boys, Mayowa, who, though an SS3 student, could not speak in English, stated that the incident happened when the female students came to their school, on December 5.

“What happened was that we had finished our exams, and when that happens, students usually go to other schools around them to play with fellow students.

“Some female students came to our school on Thursday, December 5. Four of the female students got near our school’s field and we went to them. Our Principal and teachers were in their offices while we were on the field.

“One of us, Basit, knew one of the girls. We deceived them into believing that other students were playing on the school farm, volunteering to take them there. Usually, we used to play on the farm, with colleagues, tying ropes on two close trees and swinging on them.

“The girls followed us, but we had the motive of sleeping with them. On getting there, we told them that we wanted to have a sexual relationship with them. We picked them one by one and took them to different spots on the farm, laid them on their backs on the grass and raped them.

“I didn’t know what others were doing at their corners. When the girl with me didn’t want to yield, I told her that another boy would pick her up if she tried to run away, asking her to do the ‘normal’ with me. I asked her to remove her underwear and mount her. It was difficult penetrating her because of her virginity, so I just ejaculated at the entry and got up.

“One of us, Joshua, decided to go for her also but also didn’t achieve penetration. Another boy wanted to do the same but I refused him. He was the one who started recording me and the girl during the sex session. Basit came and wanted to do his own thing but I told him the girl was a virgin. That was when he used his finger to break her hymen by poking her.”

Another of the students, Joshua, who is also in SS3, told his side of the story: “I was in my class that day. As I wanted to ease myself by a tree which is close to the bush, I heard some voices. I heard a girl pleading to be left and not to be ejaculated in. I got there and saw my colleagues with her. I was asked whether I was interested in sleeping with her. I initially told them that I was not interested but was encouraged to do it. I tried to, but couldn’t penetrate. I saw that she was a virgin and left her. Basit came and poked her with his finger.”

Seun, who is in SSS1, said: “We were on the field when the girls came. We went to them and took them to the bush. I picked one of them and asked if we could start dating. I took her to a spot in the bush and slept with her.”

Basit, in SS3, on his part said, ”The female students came to our school. I saw one of them who was my girlfriend whom I dated when I was in JSS2. I had already missed her because that was when I last saw her, as her parents moved out of Ejioku Community, so I started talking with her.

“I asked her if we could continue our relationship but she replied that she already had another boy. Others started picking each of the girls. I stayed with my girl by the field side, but later asked her to allow me to check others. I saw Mayowa and Joshua with the girl they slept with. They told me that she was a virgin. I inserted my finger to check and discovered it was true.”

Seun’s half-brother, Sunday, aged 16, who is in SSS1 but already a father of one, was said to have impregnated another girl and had a son less than two months ago.

He stated that he was not able to carry out his plan because the girl he laid hands on was menstruating.

“I knew one of the female students who came to our school on that day. It was at Lalupon that we knew each other then. When I took her inside the bush, I propositioned her and she told me she already had a guy. She asked for what I wanted and I told her to allow me to sleep with her.

“She answered that she would have allowed me but she was having her monthly period. To confirm this, I asked her to show me and she pulled down her tights and showed me her bulging underwear which indicated that she was truly menstruating. I left her.”

He confirmed having a child about two months ago but said the new mother was not raped. “I proposed to her and she agreed. I slept with her and she became pregnant. She is currently nursing the baby while living with me and my mother,” he said.

The case has been transferred to the Oyo State command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps for further investigation.

Five Secondary School Students Admit Raping Female Collegues is first published on The Whistler Newspaper