The woman, simply identified as Mrs. Cesi, 27, said she was raped by four men who fooled her into believing they wanted to buy N4000 worth of fishes from her.
The incident occurred at Eti-Osa Local Government Area of Lagos State. It was gathered that in her husband’s culture, Otodo Gbame, in Lagos State, a man must not continue to remain married to a woman who has been raped.
According to a medical report dated, September, 13, 2014, from Lagos State Government Health Center CMS, with Reference number: 184921 and signed by Dr. Doyin Ramos A.M, Mrs. Cesi was raped. Mrs. Ceci who haltingly recalled how she was raped, said she was returning from Obalende where she sells fish, when she was stopped by the four young men at Ikate road.
They told her they wanted to buy some fishes and requested she followed them to Elegusi’s Palace. Mrs. Cesi said: “Since I know the palace quite well, I followed them.
I entered their bus. The man driving suddenly drove past the palace, driving into unfamiliar bush path. I started shouting, asking where they were taking me, but they ignored me. When the man driving stopped, they dragged me out. Three other men came out from nowhere.
While four of them raped me, others held my head, hands and legs.” Mr. Cesi, the woman’s husband, confirmed the rape of his wife, adding that according to the tradition of his people, he regretted that the marriage will no longer continue. He added that there was no ritual or appeasement of whatsoever to remedy the situation.
The couple is part of a community at Otodo Gbame, Eti-Osa Local Government Area which has been at logger heads with a certain group of people over their occupation of a portion of land at Eti-Osa.
Apparently, the group which wishes to take over the land had also taken to scaring the present occupants by burning their homes and raping their women. Some people believe that Mrs. Ceci is a victim of the ongoing war.
Culled from New Telegraph.
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