A 25-year-old suspect, Ebenezer Adeshina, has been arrested by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command for having canal knowledge of a 16-years-old girl (name withheld) and subsequently blackmailing her.
In a statement by the state’s Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Command said Adeshina was arrested by men of the Owode Egbado divisional headquarters after a complaint by the victim.
The victim, who said she met the suspect on Facebook in 2021, disclosed what transpired to the police.
The statement explained, “She stated further that her phone got spoilt along the line, and she couldn’t chat with the suspect again. But in the month of March this year, the suspect called her and asked why she didn’t chat with him anymore, of which she informed him of her spoilt phone.
“The suspect there and then asked her to come to his house to collect the sum of three thousand naira for the repair of the phone. On getting there, the suspect offered her a drink which she took unknown to her that the drink has been laced with a sedative drug.
“Immediately she took the drink, she became unconscious and the suspect used the opportunity to have unlawful carnal knowledge of her against her wish. After having sex with her in the state of unconsciousness, the suspect took her nude pictures and started threatening to upload the pictures on social media if she didn’t pay him the sum of fifty thousand naira.”
Oyeyemi revealed that the suspect was arrested after the Divisional Police Officer of the Owode Egbado division, CSP Muhammad Baba, detailed his detectives to go after him.
After his arrest, Adeshina was said to have confessed to the crime.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to Anti Human Trafficking and Child Labour Unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation and possible prosecution.