14-year-old girl gang-raped to death by miscreants after refusing their advances

Obiamaka Ngozichukwu Orakwe 

Obiamaka Ngozichukwu Orakwe 14, was raped to death in her parents’ apartment in Abule-Ado area of Lagos State by miscreants.

It was reportedly known that the act was carried out by a group of miscreants, who usually hang out in a smoking joint in the area after the deceased gave a negative response to their advances.

A family friend, Cynthia Okonkwo Akuoma, who posted the sad news on her Facebook page, the deceased was a Junior Secondary School [JSS 3] student, hailed from Obosi in Anambra State.

According to Akuoma, the grieving mother of the deceased gave an account of the gruesome act that has torn the family apart.

The mother story

“I was at work when I got a call from our neighbour that they saw some boys jumping out from the fence of our compound and that my daughter was not responding to the knocks on the gate since it was locked from inside.

I was worried because my daughter was the only one at home and her other siblings were on holidays at my elder brother's place in Lekki.

On getting to the house, opened the gate with my spare key and dashed into the room only to find my daughter gasping for breath in the pool of her blood.

I asked her what happened and all she could mutter was, 'Mummy, those boys I told you about.'"

“It must have been the same boys that took advantage of the fact that I and my husband went to work and gained entry into the compound through the back fence of the house where they attacked my daughter.”

The father of the deceased, Mr. Obinna Orakwue who could not hide his emotions, lamented that enough was not being done to find out those behind the demise of his daughter.

“We have reported the incident to the police and they promised to apprehend the culprits but we still have not heard from them till date.

She was supposed to be in JSS 3 by the next academic session. We told her to join her siblings at my in-law's house but she insisted she wanted to stay at home to help with the house chores especially since I and my wife were away at work.

Now see what has happened. I leave it in the hands of God to judge."

When Mrs. Orakwue was asked about the boys she burst into tears and said that her daughter complained about some boys who had made advances towards her when she came back on holidays from school just recently but she snubbed them and they swore to teach her a lesson.

A source said “efforts are on to arrest the perpetrators of the dastardly act. We will notify the public when this is done.”