By Gbenga Sodeinde in Ado Ekiti
Operatives of the Juvenile Women Center (JWC) attached to the Criminal Investigation Department, Ekiti State Police Command, has paraded a couple Olomolaye Sesan and his wife Kehinde for allegedly having unlawful carnal knowledge of a 17-year-old girl and causing her grievous harm.
According to the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, Mr Sunday Abutu, who paraded the couple alongside other criminal at the command headquarters along Iyin, Ado-Ekiti, said the victim a student of a public Secondary School in Ilawe-Ekiti, is a younger sister to Kehinde Olomolaye who stays with her and hawks.
The Ekiti State Police Command spokesperson said before the suspects was arrested on the fateful day, the wife had conived with her husband during which he had canal knowledge of the victim severally.
The couple, according to the PPRO are currently helping the police on the investigation, while they have equally confessed to the commission of the crime and they would be arranged as soon as possible.
In a related development, the police also paraded a 43-year-old Islamic cleric, Saliu Rasak, for allegedly having unlawful carnal knowledge of two teenage girls in Agbado-Ekiti, Gbonyin local government area of the State.
The police said the victims had approached the cleric in a quest for spiritual favour and later visited his resident for more spiritual power.
The suspected cleric who is currently undergoing interrogations was alledged to have gave them certain soap and claimed that the victims were going to be receiving favour after bathing with the soaps.
The victims were severally lured to the cleric residents during which the suspect forcefully had canal knowledge of the victims as part of the condition s for the soap to work effectively
The police also paraded a 23-year-old ex-convict, Omoniyi Ajayi, over alledged burgling into two dwelling houses belonging to two different owners, along Ilawe road, Ado-Ekiti the capital of Ekiti State.
Item recovered from the suspect includes, generator, three seater chair, food stuff, gas cylinder, rug, clothes and cash sum of twenty five thausand naira.
The police also paraded a hang of armed robbers numbering about five at Oke-Ako, Itapaji-Ekiti area of Ajoni local Council Development Areas.
The suspects were alledged to have forcefully stormed the sleepy community and started shooting sporadically into the air before they attacked the resident of one Kehinde Kazeem in an attempt to kidnap him.
The kidnap which was said to have voided by the operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) during which the suspects was arrested.
Abutu said during interrogation, the suspects confessed to the commission of the crime and mentioned other members of the gang who are currently at large.