Facebook again, miss Akabugu
Nkiruka, a 21-year-old student ended up in the hospital after a date with a
friend she met on Facebook. She was allegedly pushed down from the third floor
of a building in Lagos, following a disagreement with the said man.
The
News Agency of Nigeria reports that Akabugu Nkiruka sustained multiple
injuries, including a pelvis fracture, and was undergoing surgery at the
General Hospital, Marina, Lagos, on Tuesday.
Nkiruka, a Linguistics student
of the University of Lagos, told NAN on her hospital bed that she met the young
man through the social media, barely a week before the November 1 incident.
She told NAN that the
26-year-old man (name withheld) last Wednesday invited her to a night club in
Apapa from where they ended up in his family home at 1004 Estate, Victoria
Island, Lagos.
She noted that the young man
had earlier talked about sex on the phone prior to the outing but she told him
she was menstruating.
Nkiruka said on getting to the
house, the man tore her dress and tried to rape her.
According to Nkiruka, the man
thereafter pushed her down from the third floor of the building because she
refused to have sex with him.
When contacted, the man’s
mother, who was at home on the night of the incident, however, told NAN that she
was not aware of what happened.
She said she slept around 10pm,
while the disagreement between the couple started much later.
The mother, who pleaded
anonymity, said she paid part of the hospital bill immediately after Nkiruka
was admitted, and even tried to transfer her to a private hospital.
“I took her as our own daughter
and so, I can do anything that will make her recover quickly,’’ she added.
She insisted that her
preliminary inquiry indicated that Nkiruka was not pushed by her son as
alleged, but that she jumped on her own in the ensuing scuffle.
When contacted, the Divisional
Police Officer of Bar Beach, Victoria Island, Lagos, Mr. Fayoade Adegoke, told
NAN that Nkiruka wrote in her statement that she jumped on her own, in order to
escape being raped.
Adegoke said he ordered his men
to convey the victim to the hospital immediately after he was informed of the
incident by security guards in the area.
The DPO said the suspect was
released on bail, pending further investigation into the matter.
NAN recalls that seven young
men, including two who met a 24-year-old post-graduate student, Cynthia
Osokogu, on facebook, are currently facing trial for allegedly raping and
killing her in Lagos earlier this year.
Source:
Punch
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