It was a sad end for 22 year-old Deborah
(surname withheld), a 300-level student of
Benson Idahosa University, Benin-City, after
the girl, said to be a virgin, was raped to
death by yet to be identified persons in
Benin-City, Edo State capital. The rapists cut
her throat after the dastardly act. The
family of the deceased has appealed to the
Police Command in Edo State to fish out the
culprits and bring them to book.
Deborah was said to have been raped between
12 midnight and 1 a.m after she left
hospital and decided to see one of her
friends at Upper Adesuwa. It was then the
rapists allegedly caught up with her.
Meanwhile, Edo State Police Commissioner, Mr
Funso Adebanjo, said the command was
investigating the matter. An elder sister of
the deceased, Jean, who spoke to Sunday
Vanguard, lamented that her sister was killed
after she was raped.
narrated the story: “On Thursday, she came
to my house saying she needed some money
but I could not give her. She told me she was
leaving but I did not know that she had a
plan to sell her Blackberry phone. I think
while she was saying that, someone had
compassion and asked why she would want to
sell her Blackberry for that cheap price. So
the person removed his SIM card in one of his
phones and gave her the phone. But,
somehow, she lost the phone and she had no
means of communicating with anybody.
“On Friday morning, she was not feeling fine,
so she went to hospital. I got a call from a
doctor who said my sister came there without
a family member and that she needed blood.
“So I got in touch with my mother; we looked
for money and rushed to the hospital. But
when we got to the hospital, my sister was
shouting and disturbing; so they said we
should take her to a church.
“My mother took her to a church. Later that
night, she told my mother she wanted to go
back to the hospital and she left. I did not
know she went to hospital that night and,
when she got there, she kept shouting and
disturbing people”.
According to the elder sister, the hospital
people were angry with Deborah and, at about
11pm that Friday, she left the Sickle Cell
Hospital at Golf Course Road for Upper
Adesuwa. “How she walked to Upper Adesuwa
that night I just don’t know. There is this
friend of hers that also visits us, she went to
their house,” Jean said. She continued: “They
said she got there and was knocking at the
gate but nobody opened the gate. It was when
she left the gate that the assailants struck,
raped her and slashed her throat. In the
morning, her friend started saying some
body was knocking at the gate last night and
people said they saw a corpse somewhere
outside the street. So they ran to the place
and found out it was my sister.
“But at about after 9pm that Friday, the cab
driver that carried my sister called me and
said he wanted to know how she was doing,
but I did not know that my sister even went
to hospital that night. I was in church when
my husband called me to say my sister had
accident. It was later he told me that she was
dead. We went there and the police came to
carry her corpse. On Sunday evening, I went
to Ugbor Police Station and made a
statement. But why I am worried is that I
don’t know why the hospital people will allow
her to leave at about 11pm that day.
“The hospital people should produce the man
who was incharge that night. The police said
they want to conduct post mortem and that
is where we are now. My sister was a 300-
level accounting and education student at the
Benson Idahosa University and a virgin for
that matter. I am appealing to the police to
find the killers. I don’t know why they should
allow her leave the hospital at that hour when
they knew she was not sound”.
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