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    Ex-NYSC Lady Narrates How Traditional Ruler Raped Her



    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.
    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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