There was anxiety last week Saturday over a case of attempted rape leveled against the new Chairman of the Security Committee, Mr. Aakson, by three female non-students. The girls were said to have come from Lagos state on the invitation of their boyfriends and friends who were identified as students of the University of Technology, Ile Ife and the Federal College of Education, Abeokuta for sight-seeing. According to the visitors, they were driving out of the campus from New Buka around 10.00 p.m. when the bumper of one of their three cars dropped. When the drivers of the other cars got out to pick the bumper, some boys who claimed to be members of the Security Committee were said to have come from nowhere to pounce on them and they started beating all the boys. The visitors were later detained at the Students’ Union building. At the Union building, the girls were detained but separately from the boys.
Some of the complainants
However, the most surprising part of the narration was done by the girls who alleged that the Chairman of the security committee in the person of Aakson had attempted to rape the three ladies individually, at separate times in the Students’ Union’s toilet.
One of the girls, Omoteniola, said, “We were taken to a building and beaten, the guys amongst us were locked up in a place that looked like a library while the three of us were in another room. Then, he called me and said he wanted to see me at the back. It was a toilet and I entered the toilet. He said he wanted to make love to me. I knelt down and begged him that he should not. Then, he asked me to hug him. I did this and was freed. Then, he called this one” (pointing at another girl).
The girl Omoteniola pointed at while recounting her experience stated, “When he called me, he was asking me about my boyfriend, I said he is just a student … he asked me to pull my skirt. I said no and was shouting. When he saw that I was shouting, he was trying to stop me and suddenly, he threw me away from the toilet. He then came back to me and asked me to allow him suck my nipples. I declined with a loud voice and he hit me with a stick and we went back to where we were detained.”
The third lady also narrated a similar experience. When SOCIOSCOPE correspondents went to the Students’ Union building where the case was meant to be reviewed, the question of who should moderate sparked off a heated agitation between some ideological boys and some other students who were one side and the Union leaders on the other side. At the end of it all, it was resolved by OAU students that the General Secretary of the Union, JJ Thompson, should moderate.
Another interesting but embarrassing angle to the scenario was the throwing of fisticuff that the whole event nearly resulted into.
During the proceeding, Aakson, the chairman of the newly constituted Security Committee denied all the allegations leveled against him while the case was dismissed on the basis of ‘no winner, no loser.’ Efforts to reach Aakson by SOCIOSCOPE correspondents after the dismissal of the case proved abortive.
Immediately after the dismissal of the case, asking the ladies and the boys what they felt about the resolution, one of the ladies cursed in tears, “Those two boys (referring to Aakson and Eleku) will never do well in life. Nemesis will one day catch up with them, unless they did not make an attempt to make love to us because the one in blue jersey also touched some of our sensitive parts.”
One of the boys that were allegedly battered lamented thus, “My friend is still been hospitalized. A bottle was broken on his knee but, as a Muslim, I leave vengeance to God.”
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