Lagos
State House Assembly lawmakers frustrated over the lack of information
about the perpetrators of an alleged sodomy of two Ejigbo women, is
today offering a reward of N1.25M for any information.
The Chairman of the committee, Mr. Ajibayo Adeyeye announced the
reward of Naira 1M for information leading to an arrest, and said he
would personally add N250,000.
The reward is offered following a public hearing today at the Lagos
State House Assembly where testimony was heard from the Chairman of the
Ejigbo Local Government, Kehinde Bamigbetan, the Police Department,
civil society leaders, community leaders and market women.
Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, President of the Women Arise for Change asked
that the video of the sodomy be played at the hearing, which it was.
The video first aired on the internet in February 2013, and shows a
faceless gang attacking two women, unidentified, stripping them naked,
and thrusting ground pepper and hard sticks into the genitals of one of
them and covering her in a heavy liquid. A second victim, a teenage
girl, was tortured as well.
Dr Odumakin lead a protest to the House Assembly on December 23,
2013, to demand a proper investigation into the alleged sodomy case,
concerned that no one knows whether the women survived the torture.
Odumakin has accused Bamigbetan and the police of doing little to bring the perpetrators to justice.
Mr. Kehinde Bamigbetan said in his testimony, which included a long
Facebook thread, that he had done everything he could to find the
culprits.
Ejigbo police and members of the community also added nothing about who the gang members might be.
SaharaReporters said in their report from December 12 there were
conflicting reports from police and local government about the
controversial case.
Source: Saharareporters
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