A 21-year-old
student has been hospitalised, after she was allegedly pushed down from the
third floor of a building in Lagos, following a disagreement with a man she met
on the social network, Facebook.
The News Agency
of Nigeria reports that Akabugu Nkiruka sustained multiple injuries, including
a pelvis fracture, and was undergoing surgery at the General Hospital, Marina,
Lagos, on Tuesday.
Nkiruka, a
Linguistics student of the University of Lagos, told NAN on her hospital bed
that she met the young man through the social media, barely a week before the
November 1 incident.
She told NAN
that the 26-year-old man (name withheld) last Wednesday invited her to a night
club in Apapa from where they ended up in his family home at 1004 Estate,
Victoria Island, Lagos.
She noted that
the young man had earlier talked about sex on the phone prior to the outing but
she told him she was menstruating.
Nkiruka said on
getting to the house, the man tore her dress and tried to rape her.
According to
Nkiruka, the man thereafter pushed her down from the third floor of the
building because she refused to have sex with him.
When contacted,
the man’s mother, who was at home on the night of the incident, however, told
NAN that she was not aware of what happened.
She said she
slept around 10pm, while the disagreement between the couple started much
later.
The mother, who
pleaded anonymity, said she paid part of the hospital bill immediately after
Nkiruka was admitted, and even tried to transfer her to a private hospital.
“I took her as our own daughter and so, I can
do anything that will make her recover quickly,’’ she added.
She insisted that her preliminary inquiry
indicated that Nkiruka was not pushed by her son as alleged, but that she
jumped on her own in the ensuing scuffle.
When contacted,
the Divisional Police Officer of Bar Beach, Victoria Island, Lagos, Mr. Fayoade
Adegoke, told NAN that Nkiruka wrote in her statement that she jumped on her
own, in order to escape being raped.
Adegoke said he
ordered his men to convey the victim to the hospital immediately after he was
informed of the incident by security guards in the area.
The DPO said the
suspect was released on bail, pending further investigation into the matter.
- Punch
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