Afrigather Phillip Oyibo Awani, a former youth chief in Okere, a neighborhood in Warri, Delta State, has requested a 14-year-old to swear in his shrine to show his innocence after her household recognized him as her rapist. A relative, who solely wished FIJ to determine her as Amanda, stated that Oyibo had threatened the sufferer and he or she had to enter hiding due to the threats he made. Amanda informed FIJ that Oyibo is in his 50s…..CONTINUE READING THE ARTICLE FROM THE SOURCE
“He has used the police to threaten her. He additionally stated that he was able to take any step, whether or not bodily or religious, towards her.
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In some unspecified time in the future, he requested her to return and swear at his shrine, however her grandmother insisted she wouldn’t swear in his shrine and requested him to return to Obodo as an alternative, however he all the time stated he didn’t have the time,” Amanda informed FIJ in August.
Narrating the sequence of occasions that led as much as {the teenager}’s abuse, Amanda informed FIJ that the sufferer gave her good friend some cash to maintain in August and he or she went to her good friend’s home to get the cash.
On getting there, her good friend was not house. Since she knew the place her good friend stored the cash, she went there to take it.
When her good friend’s mom received house, she accused her of stealing her cash. She reported to the chairman of the neighborhood, who ordered some youths to flog her. She needed to run to Inorin to save lots of herself,” stated Amanda.
They went to convey her again to the neighborhood and once they returned, it was evening. So, the chairman ordered her to be locked up in a cell. It wasn’t an precise cell however a city corridor and he had a furnished condominium near it.
She added that Oyibo went to the city corridor later that evening and requested the 14-year-old to comply with him to his house.
He transferred her from the city corridor to his room and informed her that if she didn’t enable him to sleep along with her, he would name youths to flog her and hand her over to the police. He additionally informed her he would kill her if she informed anyone, Amanda informed FIJ.
FIJ additionally learnt that Oyibo and his brother had tried to brush the case beneath the carpet by pleading with the sufferer’s grandmother to settle it in-house.
Amanda additionally informed FIJ that Oyibo additionally tried to make the sufferer recant her accusations towards him and inform the neighborhood that he didn’t rape her.
The minor’s relations needed to take her out of city on account of the threats from Oyibo. She has been in hiding since then.
FIJ referred to as Vivid Edafe, the Delta Police PRO, on August 22 however he didn’t reply.
FIJ discovered Oyibo on Fb and despatched him a message on Friday. He had not responded at press time.
