re- Four girls raped to Coma, Saint Annes Secondary School, Molete, Ibadan
Posted by Admin on August 15, 2008
If I were a member of the Nigerian Police in Oyo state, I would arrest ‘one of the principals’ interviewed in the news-exerpt below:
Hoodlums forced their way into the hostels of St. Annes Secondary School, Molete, Ibadan, Oyo State, on Monday night and raped four female students to coma.
Three of the students are in senior secondary school, SSS, while the fourth one is in the junior secondary school, JSS.
The incident occurred around 2 a.m. when the miscreants scaled the fence of the girl’s school while the students were fast asleep. They descended on their victims unmolested.
Daily Champion gathered that the rapists who were fully armed with dangerous weapons such as cutlasses, iron bars and charms, gained entry into the hostels through the back fence, thus beating the guards on duty.
They were said to have assaulted the head teacher, while most of the girls in the hostels were similarly beaten before being raped.
Our source said that the security guard at the main gate was unaware of the incident as the rapists prevented the girls from raising alarm, by scaring them with the dangerous weapons. The rapists later fled the scene, after which the head teacher took the girls to a nearby hospital. St. Annes School, Molete harbours five schools with a principal each.
One of the principals, who spoke under anonymity, said that this is not the first time miscreants will be coming to rape school girls in Molete area in Ibadan.
“This is a kind of thing that has been happening in the school which was not revealed to the public. In fact, similar thing happened only two months ago,” she said.
According him, efforts by the school’s authorities to beef up security at the school had not yielded positive result as hoodlums kept coming to the hostels to rape the girls.
Meanwhile, the assaulted girls are being treated at a hospital in Ibadan (names withheld), while the hospital management promised to conduct series of tests on them.
A doctor in charge of the hospital confirmed that four students were brought in with severe injuries. He however stated that they had been responding to treatment.
The Oyo State Commissioner of Police (CP), Mr. Bashiru Azeez, reacting to the incident, directed that security be beefed up at the school, while he urged the Police area commander to “fish out the rapists at all costs.”
source: here
Sis Shammah said
The issue of rape or attempted rape has been happening since I was a student at the school (1975-1980) and before; I am now in my mid-forties. The rapists were called “Baba Konde”.
The back of the school was (and probably still) bordered by bushes and I believe that the walls are NOT SECURE ENOUGH.
Also it is obvious that the doors and windows are not secure otherwise it will be difficult to break in and the sound should wake some of the girls up. A boarding school building should be very secure otherwise there is no point running it.
St Anne’s School is a Christian school and my mum (now late) attended the same school. We need proper artillery of effectual prayers as far as Christianity is concerned; all that “nominal”/ceremonial Christianity thing will avail little at the best.
It is said that the hoodlums came with charms and that can be conquered if the barriers preventing the school or churches from adopting the instrument of effectual prayers is removed. After all safety is paramount and if the method is godly and Christianly, why not give it a try?
The school also will benefit from well equipped security system.
Is it possible to have the government build houses in the area occupied by bush while serving as a source of income to the school and the state government?
The issue of rapists visiting the school existed before I joined the school and this is about 30 years later. Another issue was that of ghosts (spirits) reported as having been seen by some of the students in the past e.g. aka “lady kaa koo”; I don’t know if this is true or not. It was said that the school site used to be a cemetery many years back.
I think the school should have spiritually well developed and seasoned men of God like Dr D K Olukoya, Papa Adeboye, to mention a few visit and pray over the school for deliverance and protection. If the girls are also taught the principles of such prayers and the school authorities adopts them to be prayed am and pm by the boarding students, at the daily school assembly, by members of the school’s Christian fellowship and each girl VOLUNTARILY in the interest of her personal protection devotes a bit of time to praying recommended prayer points, this should help.
Sex is spiritual and rape is traumatic, it would help if the girls who had that bad experience could be taken through the process of deliverance and healing prayers. And what about their virginity? – I would want to believe that those girls were virgins.
I am quite far away but I will continue to pray for my former secondary school and the girls. If I were in Nigeria and in Ibadan, I would have devoted time to a weekly regular visit for prayer (if permitted) and to teach the girls the principles of spiritual protection and security.
I will by the grace of God visit this site in future when I can devote a bit mire time to post some prayer points which hopefully the school would introduce the girls to and incorporate into the school’s programme.
I will continue to remember my former Secondary School and the girls in prayer.
It is well in the name of Jesus, amen.
Shalom.
From
Sister Shammah (formerly Lola Ojo) Thursday, 26 March 2009
Sis Shammah said
The issue of rape or attempted rape has been happening since I was a student at the school (1975-1980) and before; I am now in my mid-forties. The rapists were called “Baba Konde”.
The back of the school was (and probably still) bordered by bushes and I believe that the walls are NOT SECURE ENOUGH.
Also it is obvious that the doors and windows are not secure otherwise it will be difficult to break in and the sound should wake some of the girls up. A boarding school building should be very secure otherwise there is no point running it.
St Anne’s School is a Christian school and my mum (now late) attended the same school. We need proper artillery of effectual prayers as far as Christianity is concerned; all that “nominal”/ceremonial Christianity thing will avail little at the best.
It is said that the hoodlums came with charms and that can be conquered if the barriers preventing the school or churches from adopting the instrument of effectual prayers is removed. After all safety is paramount and if the method is godly and Christianly, why not give it a try?
The school also will benefit from well equipped security system.
Is it possible to have the government build houses in the area occupied by bush while serving as a source of income to the school and the state government?
The issue of rapists visiting the school existed before I joined the school and this is about 30 years later. Another issue was that of ghosts (spirits) reported as having been seen by some of the students in the past e.g. aka “lady kaa koo”; I don’t know if this is true or not. It was said that the school site used to be a cemetery many years back.
I think the school should have spiritually well developed and seasoned men of God like Dr D K Olukoya, Papa Adeboye, to mention a few visit and pray over the school for deliverance and protection. If the girls are also taught the principles of such prayers and the school authorities adopts them to be prayed am and pm by the boarding students, at the daily school assembly, by members of the school’s Christian fellowship and each girl VOLUNTARILY in the interest of her personal protection devotes a bit of time to praying recommended prayer points, this should help.
Sex is spiritual and rape is traumatic, it would help if the girls who had that bad experience could be taken through the process of deliverance and healing prayers. And what about their virginity? – I would want to believe that those girls were virgins.
I am quite far away but I will continue to pray for my former secondary school and the girls. If I were in Nigeria and in Ibadan, I would have devoted time to a weekly regular visit for prayer (if permitted) and to teach the girls the principles of spiritual protection and security.
I will by the grace of God visit this site in future when I can devote a bit mire time to post some prayer points which hopefully the school would introduce the girls to and incorporate into the school’s programme.
I will continue to remember my former Secondary School and the girls in prayer.
It is well in the name of Jesus, amen.
Shalom.
From
Sister Shammah Thursday, 26 March 2009
naijatechtalk said
Dear Sister Shammah
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