In Ibadan: Another teenager raped, killed

In less than 72 hours after Uwaila Omozuwa, a 22-year-old 100-Level student of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), was raped inside a church and died in a hospital hours later, another incident has occurred in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

This time round, it was at Akinyele Local Government Area of the ancient city of Ibadan, where some yet-to-be identified robbers reportedly raped an 18-year-old lady, Barakat Bello, to death in her home on Monday evening.

She had gone to the bathroom, bathing when she heard a noise close to their house, and subsequently, she left the bathroom built separately from the house to check what was the happening.

It was while walking towards the house she realised it was robbers that broke into the compound, and as they saw her approaching, before she could flee, the robbers attacked and strangled her, then took turn to rape her after which she was stabbed to death.

It is a moment of grief for the family of Kasimu Elepo left to mourn the death of their daughter, Barakat. Barakat was a year one student at the Institute of Agriculture, Research and Training, Ibadan.

Father of the deceased, Elepo, said that he was not at home when Barakat was killed, adding that the deceased’s sister was also not around at the time the incident happened. According to him, the victim’s sister found Barakat’s body at the back of the house in a pool of her blood when she returned from Quaranic lessons that fateful day.

Elepo, who could not contain his emotions, revealed that the police in the area had begun an investigation into the matter. However, there are multiple versions of the story, a Twitter user, @DrOlufunmilayo hinted that suspected armed robbers invaded Barakat’s home to steal and in the process, raped and killed her.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Oyo command, Olugbenga Fadeyi, said the police had launched an investigation to arrest the perpetrators of the act, calling on the members of the public to give the agency credible information. Theguardianng