A dreaded criminal in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state has bagged a lengthy jail term after being found guilty of gang-raping a lady and also being engaged in acts of cultism.
A middle aged man, Super Ojo from Akaba in Yenagoa Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, has been sentenced to 21 years in prison for conspiracy, gang raping and belonging to a secret society.
Ojo popularly known as Bestman was convicted by a state High Court sitting in Yenagoa, on Friday. The convict and nine other members of his gang raped a lady at a bush in Akaba and forcefully initiated her into their secret cult.
According to the Nation, on the fateful day, Ojo and four other persons who were armed with matchetes and guns stormed the home of the lady and accosted her and her brother. When neighbours came out to intervene, the convict who was reportedly dreaded in the community ordered them back to their houses.
They dragged the lady into a nearby bush where five other persons were waiting, blind-folded her and each of them took turns on her. As they raped her, they made her to shout a slogan of their cult group and later gave her a matchete cut at the back as a symbol of the initiation.
The rapists later took her to a place where she took her bath and they later asked her to go home. But she collapsed on her way home and was rescued and rushed to the hospital by a Good Samaritan.
The young lady who spent many weeks in the hospital and at a point attempted suicide later reported the matter to the police who laid a trap for the rapists and arrested Ojo. Members of Ojo’s gang threatened to kill the brother of the victim if he failed to secure Ojo’s freedom and few days later the brother was attacked and killed with matchetes.
The High Court 2 presided over by Justice Margaret Akpomiemie found Ojo guilty of conspiracy, actual rape and being a member of secret cult known as the Bobos.
On the count of conspiracy, Ojo bagged five years in prison; 21 years for rape and two years for being a member of the Bobos. The sentences would run concurrently.'