Eighteen women aboard a commuter luxury bus were reportedly
raped in the wee hours of Thursday armed bandits few kilometres from Okene,
Kogi State. The victims, comprising single and married women, were
among passengers in the ill-fated bus with a Lagos registration number
XM753 AKD, operated by a popular transport company (name withheld by us), which
was travelling from Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, to Abuja, when the
incident occurred at about 2.am.
One of the victims, who narrated the episode to said the journey had been smooth from Port Harcourt till a short distance from Okene, when they ran into an ambush laid by the robbers.
“I was asleep when suddenly, I heard the sound of gunshots. The robbers shot at the driver’s side in a bid to force the vehicle to a halt. It was then I realised that they had barricaded the road with logs of wood. Then, they ordered all of us to disembark and marched us into the bush.
After dispossessing us of our money and other valuable items, then, they raped all the women in the bus, numbering about 18, one after the other. It was a traumatic experience which lasted for about three hours,”, one of the female victims who declined giving her name recounted.
It was indeed a pathetic scene as some of the female victims who could not conceal their pains wept profusely as they narrated their ordeal when the bus arrived its terminal at the Utako district of Abuja at about 10 am Thursday.
One of the victims, who narrated the episode to said the journey had been smooth from Port Harcourt till a short distance from Okene, when they ran into an ambush laid by the robbers.
“I was asleep when suddenly, I heard the sound of gunshots. The robbers shot at the driver’s side in a bid to force the vehicle to a halt. It was then I realised that they had barricaded the road with logs of wood. Then, they ordered all of us to disembark and marched us into the bush.
After dispossessing us of our money and other valuable items, then, they raped all the women in the bus, numbering about 18, one after the other. It was a traumatic experience which lasted for about three hours,”, one of the female victims who declined giving her name recounted.
It was indeed a pathetic scene as some of the female victims who could not conceal their pains wept profusely as they narrated their ordeal when the bus arrived its terminal at the Utako district of Abuja at about 10 am Thursday.
Extracted from Daily Sunday.
So robbing them wasn’t enough they had to also rape them,these
robbers are really insane
Hmm! What’s ur take on this?
19 comments:
of course they are mad, bf they go on any operation,they intoxicate themselves,they wont be wekll with them
Ewre they no men in that bus that could challenge them
It will not be well with those robbers.
what ?
huh....ridiculous..
shocking
really grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..
really grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..
Yeiiiiiiiiii! poor women
Those bastards must have given them std...these women shld be treated O!
Apart from the shock, the stigma...the married ones, their husbands shld help and console them O!
I really feel for these women, cant wish this kind of barberic act on my worse enemy
But why shld husbands allow their wives ti risk night bus travelling, its a pity...it has happened, they shld take take heart
this is appalling, what?
OMG! these idots dont even have an atom of respect for women who brought them to life.
I know they are trying to cut cost, by taking the night bus,but it wasnt worth it, day time nobody is safe, how much more at night
I feel for these women...oh God
This kind of scar for life is one of the dangerous thing that can happen to a woman, my cousin who experience this at the age of 21, she is 39 yr and the shock is still there. even when her husband has given her all the support and love
These bastards must be found and punished
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