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.
She 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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