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| photos of some of the girls raped during the cult initiation |
No fewer than thirty female junior secondary students from
Uwani Girls Secondary Schools, City Girl Secondary School, Met- ropolitan
Secondary Schools, New Layout Secondary School and Urban Girls Secondary School
in Enugu were gang-raped and initiated into cult groups recently.
This came to light in the wake of a mass arrest carried
out by the anti-cultism squad of Enugu State Police Command, an exercise that
led to the arrest of 10 students of JSS1 and JSS3, aged 14 and 15 years old.
Their subsequent confessions indicated a pattern of systematic and continuous
rape of over 30 girls during and after their initiation into various
confraternities.
According to the Enugu State Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Danmallam, the arrests were carried out after the Command received a tip-off that students of several Enugu secondary schools belonged to various cult groups, especially the Viron Queen Confraternity.
According to the Enugu State Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Danmallam, the arrests were carried out after the Command received a tip-off that students of several Enugu secondary schools belonged to various cult groups, especially the Viron Queen Confraternity.
They are now in custody and had confessed their
membership of Viron Queen Confraternity,” Danmallam disclosed.
Some of the students were identified as 15 and Ujunwa Ede, 14. Others were Chiemerie Olisakure, Naomi Peace,15, Ruth Nwoke, 14, Chibuogu Adaeze, 15, Akalisi Chisom, 14 and Ogbu Ebere, 14.
Details of how the girls were violated by their abusers were explicitly stated in their confessions. The trio of Edeh, Peace and Nwoke confessed that they were introduced to the cult by a friend and at their initiation in 2017, were raped each by five different boys. “Our Parents didn’t know we are in the Viron Queen Confraternity,” they said.
Another victim, Adaeze, claimed “We didn’t know they put drugs in the drinks they gave us. From there, we were initiated and raped by six boys.”
Olisakure also added: “We were threatened not to tell anybody or our parents. The irony is that at the closing hour of the school, three of the same boys who initiated us would come with bike and take us away to have sex with us. After that, they give us N1,500, as transport fare.”
Chisom, also raped by five boys, said the incident took place at a friend’s party in a hotel where she first met the boys who introduced her to Viron Queen Confraternity and encouraged her to join. Her subsequent initiation, she claimed, involved several other female students from various schools in the New Layout area of Enugu.
She further alleged, “Some of our teachers know that we are members of Viron Queen Confraternity,” adding that: “We don’t respect our male and female teachers. Some of them used the advantage to sleep with us because we don’t want them to tell our parents. We can identify some of the boys who initiated and raped us and threatened us not to tell our parents. We have informed police officers and we hope they will be arrested”.
Some of the students were identified as 15 and Ujunwa Ede, 14. Others were Chiemerie Olisakure, Naomi Peace,15, Ruth Nwoke, 14, Chibuogu Adaeze, 15, Akalisi Chisom, 14 and Ogbu Ebere, 14.
Details of how the girls were violated by their abusers were explicitly stated in their confessions. The trio of Edeh, Peace and Nwoke confessed that they were introduced to the cult by a friend and at their initiation in 2017, were raped each by five different boys. “Our Parents didn’t know we are in the Viron Queen Confraternity,” they said.
Another victim, Adaeze, claimed “We didn’t know they put drugs in the drinks they gave us. From there, we were initiated and raped by six boys.”
Olisakure also added: “We were threatened not to tell anybody or our parents. The irony is that at the closing hour of the school, three of the same boys who initiated us would come with bike and take us away to have sex with us. After that, they give us N1,500, as transport fare.”
Chisom, also raped by five boys, said the incident took place at a friend’s party in a hotel where she first met the boys who introduced her to Viron Queen Confraternity and encouraged her to join. Her subsequent initiation, she claimed, involved several other female students from various schools in the New Layout area of Enugu.
She further alleged, “Some of our teachers know that we are members of Viron Queen Confraternity,” adding that: “We don’t respect our male and female teachers. Some of them used the advantage to sleep with us because we don’t want them to tell our parents. We can identify some of the boys who initiated and raped us and threatened us not to tell our parents. We have informed police officers and we hope they will be arrested”.
Some of the girls confessed to indulging in cigarette
smoking and drinking beer at parties or clubs. However, they claimed their
parents were not aware they had become cultists. While they heed words of
advices from their parents, some of them claimed it was difficult to leave the
Viron Queens or White Angels.
“We didn’t know that we are in bondage until the anti-cultism policemen arrested us in the school premises,” said Edeh.
Commissioner of Police Danmallam said the police are still investigating the case, adding that the detectives will soon go after those who raped and initiated the girls.
“We didn’t know that we are in bondage until the anti-cultism policemen arrested us in the school premises,” said Edeh.
Commissioner of Police Danmallam said the police are still investigating the case, adding that the detectives will soon go after those who raped and initiated the girls.
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