Popular Fuji musician, Alhaji Abass Akande, popularly known as Obesere,
has been arrested by the Police for allegedly raping a
29-year-old business woman, Olanike Olaiya in his Okota residence,
Lagos, according to a report by
Vanguard. Find the full report below....
The victim, who took the matter to the Police, also narrated her ordeal
in the hands of the musician whose shows generally fascinate society
women.
According to Olaiya, a National Diploma graduate of business
administration from Ibadan Polytechnic, "I got to know Obesere through
one of my friends, Mrs Bola Okoro. She told me that Obesere would assist
me in my business.
"I deal in office equipment and when I contacted Obesere, he asked me to
meet him in his family house at Okota. When I met him, I introduced
my business to him and he promised to connect me to some of his friends
in Dubai who would sell goods to me on credit.
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"After the discussion, he started demanding for sex and I refused and
when I wanted to leave, he insisted I should sleep over in his house
because it was late and he claimed that it was dangerous to go out late
in the night in his area.
"I thought he was a responsible man and I decided to sleep over, but at
the dead of the night, he came into the room where I slept and pounced
on me.
"He raped me and afterwards inserted a ring he wore into my private
part and I started bleeding. He hurriedly left me in the room saying
he had an appointment to fulfill.
"I could not bear the trauma and the bleeding and I reported the matter to the police."
Vanguard gathered that Obesere was first arrested last Wednesday by the
Police at Isolo Police Division, where Olaiya reported the matter. He
was subsequently released on administrative bail.
He was later re-arrested on Monday, when medical examination conducted
on Olaiya revealed that she was actually raped and the Divisional Police
Officer, Isolo, Adamu Ibrahim, was said to have ordered the transfer
of the matter to State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Panti,
Yaba, for further investigation.
Sources disclosed that Obesere's arrest was made possible through a
warrant of arrest issued by the Chief Magistrate of Isolo Magistrate
Court, Mrs Kike Bukola Ayeye, as he had declined to honour several
police invitations sent to his house at Johnson Famiye Street, Canal
Estate, Ago, Okota.
We are lovers — Obesere
Police sources also said Obesere in his statement denied ever raping
Olaiya, rather he claimed she was his lover and they made love when she
visited him.
The source added that Obesere claimed he asked her to go to a private
hospital for treatment when she complained that she was bleeding, but he
was surprised when she reported to the police that she was raped.