… As DPO, ‘A’ Division Warri Lands In Trouble
A 13-year-old girl (name withheld), who was abducted was turned into a sex and money making machine for her abductors in Ghana.
Trouble started one Saturday morning when the 13-year-old girl, a Senior Secondary School 1 student of Dore Numa College Warri, to buy food nearby when she was kidnapped.
The traumatized mother of the 13 year-old girl, Mrs. Loveth Taiwo narrated how her daughter was abducted in Warri and taken to Ghana where she was violently raped for five weeks before being brought back home half dead.
Mrs. Taiwo who cried out at an event organized by the Delta state government in collaboration with the 05 Initiatives, said that was the last time she saw her untill after about five weeks later when she was dumped inside a tricycle, popularly known as Keke Napep, half dead.
Mrs Taiwo said she waited for her to return with the food to no avail until she decided to go in search. She added that all efforts to locate her whereabout was unsuccessful and the following day she reported the case to the police at the ‘A’ Division Warri where the policemen including the DPO put up an embarrassing attitude and refused to do anything meaningful and even demanded for money before they would attend to her.
According to her after about six weeks, Sharon was found in the area where she was dumped half dead.
“When we saw her, she was smelling and water was rushing out from her private part. We later discovered from her that she was abducted and taken to Ghana as sex slave where she slept with average of ten men a day until a white man helped to escape back to Nigeria”.
Mrs Taiwo always in tears, also revealed that Sharon was pregnant but the baby died in her womb as a result of numerous injections she was subjected to while in captivity.
“The Doctors told us the next thing was to evacuate the foetus but they feared she would not be able to withstand the pain now. They have recommended some drugs but I don’t have the money yet”
The agonized mother revealed that the police still demanded N15,000 from her to start investigation and the counselor in Sharon’s school, one Jennifer paid the money before they commenced investigation which led to the arrest of one Mudiaga.
According to Mrs Taiwo, it was discovered that she was abducted and taken to a nearby hotel, Williams 69 Hotel at Iyara in Warri before she was transported to Ghana.
She expressed appreciation to Pastor Edewor Ogedegbe and Jennifer, the Counselor at Dore Numa College for all their supports.
Meanwhile, the wife of governor, Mrs Edith Okowa, apparently disturbed by the fate of the young girl said she would do everything possible to get justice, as she promised to take the matter to the governor, and the Commissioner of Police to prosecute those involved.
Dame Okowa, emotions laden, hinted that justice would be done, and thereafter presented a cheque of an undisclosed amount of money to Mrs Taiwo’s family to assist the rape victim.
She insisted that when the matter is reported to the governor and the police boss, the said DPO, would come to explain his side if the story.
The 2021 edition of the on-going 16 days of activism against gender based violence against women and girls turned into a weeping theatre as the State governor’s wife, Dame Edith Okowa, Dr. Joyce Ogwezi, HOD, Mass Communication, Delta State University, Mrs. Bridget Ayanfulu, State Commissioner for Humanitarian and Communities Development, and Other vulnerable Women shed tears.
