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It was a sad end for Omolola Abogunrin, a young female Youth Corps member, as she was allegedly raped and murdered on Sunday, October 4, by yet to be identified men, in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, reports The Nation Newspaper.
The
worst part of the sad incident was that Abogunrin was murdered exactly
two weeks to her wedding which was to hold on Saturday, October 17, a
day she would have clocked 29.
According to the
report, the young lady who was a graduate of The Polytechnic Ibadan, was
reportedly murdered in the premises of an agriculture research
institute located at Apata area of the ancient city after she was sexually defiled.
Her
corpse was discovered beside a stream within the premises of the
institute and according to police report, she must have been attacked on
her way back from a church service.
A resident of the area told The Nation:
“We
saw semen in her private part and nail wounds around her neck when we
found her corpse. That was an evidence that she was raped and
strangulated.”
A member of her bereaved family said:
“Omolola was looking forward to her wedding which was scheduled for October 17, the day she would have been 29 years old.
She
and her fiancé held their family introduction four months ago to pave
the way for proper marriage ceremony, scheduled to take place at a
Christ Apostolic Church in Ibadan.”
Her fiancé, Olusola Babalola, was initially arrested by the police who detained him for four days before he was released.
The
police based the arrest of Babalola on the fact that he was the last
person who spoke with her on phone and she was actually raped and killed
about 1,000 metres away from Babalola’s house.
In
June this year, a female National Youth Service Corps member, Yetunde
Idowu, serving with Radio Kwara in Ilorin, was alleged gang raped to
death by some men led by her 51-year-old man friend, Abdullahi Tanko.