Posted on: Tue 23-07-2024

The police in Osun have arrested a practising medical doctor in the state, Olayode Akangbe Shakiru, for allegedly assaulting and sexually abusing a teenage girl. Shakiru was arrested by a team of police officers from the Oke-Baale Police Division in Osogbo, the capital of the state after the family members of the 18-year-old girl reported the matter.

The Guardian learnt that Shakiru had approached the victim (name withheld) while walking along the road about two weeks ago and offered to give her a lift to her destination. Before dropping her off at the Oke-Fia area of Osogbo, the medical practitioner collected her phone number.

A few days after the duo started exchanging text messages, Shakiru allegedly promised to get a job for the teenage admission-seeker so that she could raise money for her studies. It was learnt that the suspect invited the girl to his house at the Ilesa Garage area of Osogbo last week Wednesday to sign the purported job form and allegedly abused her sexually after rendering her powerless with repeated blows and strangulation.

The survivor explained that she finished her secondary school education last year and was making efforts to get a menial job to save up for her further studies at a tertiary institution.

Narrating her ordeal to The Guardian yesterday, the survivor said she left the Osunjela community area of the state to Osogbo to search for a job and while roaming the streets, Shakiru, who was riding a car, saw her and offered to assist her. wards the Oke-Fia area of Osogbo and wanted to board a commercial motorcycle. The man (Shakiru) approached me while driving his car along the Olonkoro area and offering to give me a lift to my destination. “He introduced himself as Doctor Olayode Akangbe Shakiru and showed me |some of his medical documents so that I could believe him.

“Before alighted at Oke-Fia, he collected my phone number. When I got home that day, he sent me a text message. On Tuesday, he sent me a message on WhatsApp asking about my daily activities and if! had any work that I was doing. I told him I stayed at home with my parents and that | was still; trying to gain admission into a tertiary institution. | told him that I needed that would enable me to save up for my school admission.

“He then said he would get me a job so that I wouldn’t be staying idle at home. told him I would be happy to work because I needed to save up money for my studies and that was the reason I visited Osogboto see if I could get a job.

fill out the employment form and other documents for the job. He told me that he was assisting others to get work at Atoke Hospital in the Igbona area of Osogbo where he claimed he was working. He said there is accommodation at the hospital for me and that I can become an auxiliary nurse and be filling forms for patients.”

On how Shakiru allegedly took advantage of her when she visited his place to fill out the purported job form, the survivor stated: “I visited his house at Ilesa Garage for filing of the job form the next day, which was Wednesday. I had already told him I didn't have a fare to Osogbo because I came from the Osunjela community. He asked how much it would take me to get to Ogogbo, I told him N1,500 and he sent it to me. Upon receiving the money, boarded a bus to Osogbo. He came to pick me up at his house at about 3:30 p.m.

“The house is a self-contained room and parlour. I sat in the sitting room and was waiting for him to bring out the employment form. Then he started touching and caressing me.”

SOURCE: GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER

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