Following the stability of the health condition of the Alowa
of Ilowa, Oba Bukola Alli, who has been standing trial at an Osogbo
Magistrate’s Court for allegedly raping a member of the NYSC, Miss Helen Opara,
by medical doctors at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex
(OAUTHC), Ile-Ife, Osun State, the traditional ruler has been sent back to
prison custody.
A medical report presented to the court presided
over by Magistrate Adewumi Makanjuola on Monday, by the consultant physician
and cardiologist of the OAUTHC; Dr. R.A Adebayo, refuted the claims of the
monarch that he of the monarch that he had diabetic disease.
According to the report, the traditional ruler was suffering
from hypertensive heart disease.
Medical team of Ilesa Prison, where the monarch is being remanded had transferred him to the OAUTHC on July 02 with an assessment of partial stroke, following his collapse and unconsciousness.
Medical team of Ilesa Prison, where the monarch is being remanded had transferred him to the OAUTHC on July 02 with an assessment of partial stroke, following his collapse and unconsciousness.
However the hearing
of the case of 23-year old Helen Okpara continued on Tuesday at an Osogbo High
Court, on alleged rape during her mandatory National Youths Service Corps
(NYSC) by a traditional ruler in Osun State. Oba Adebukola Alli, the Alowa of
Ilowa in Obokun local government area of the state.
Testifying at the
resumed hearing into the case, Helen revealed how Oba Alli raped and bruised
her private part.
“The monarch came
over me and I started panicking and ran into a toilet where he started
struggling with my clothes and pulled it off. He collected my clothes and said
he was going to soak them in water. He came inside the room and switched off
the light, he struggled with me on bed and that was how he raped me. I kept
shouting but the Oba told me that nobody would hear me. And after I noticed
that something was dropping from my private part.”
Okpara who
recently completed her national service in Ilowa, the monarch’s domain was led
in evidence by the principal state counsel, Mr. Biodun Badiora and she took her
time to explain to the court how Oba Adebukola forced her to bed.
Miss Okpara, while
narating her ordeal said she was engaged by the natural ruler to distribute
enrollment forms for a computer school he had established and that served as a
bait to rape me.
“I was engaged by
the monarch to distribute forms for a computer training he organized and after
distributing the computer training form to the participants, I told the Oba
that we are through for the day and he said I should wait that he was going to
drop me on the way to my house. So I waited for him and he drove me in his car
but when we got to the front of my house where I was expected to drop, he said
I would have to follow him to Osogbo for the registration of the forms, saying
that the state government is expecting the forms.
“I
told the Oba that it was late and that I can’t make it to Osogbo but he made a
promise to bring me back to the village whatever time it cost. When we got to
his house in Osogbo, he didn’t mention anything about the registration of the
forms, so I told him I wanted to leave but he said it was already getting late
and that he couldn’t risk driving at night.
“I told the Oba to
drop me in front of a police station that I would find my way home, he didn’t
comply. Instead, he went inside a room and came out with a bundle of N200 notes
and threw it at me that I should collect, because he mentioned how impressed he
was with my performance at the computer training centre but I told him I didn’t
need his money”, she narrated.
According to the
victim, the traditional ruler went in with the money and when he came out of
the room, he had undressed “When I told him I was leaving, he said I wasn’t
going back that night and that
he had been using
many ways to get at me but I always turned down his advances and he said he was
going to harm me that night.”
The accused
monarch was in court and it would be recalled that he had told the court
through his counsel, Tawfiq Tewogbade that he made love to Helen and that she
enjoyed it while it lasted.
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