A policeman is expected to protect the lives and property of the citizens. But time will tell if a policeman serving with the Ekiti State Police Command, Mr. Olalekan Lasisi, has abused his privilege as a law enforcement officer or not.


Commissioner of Police in Ekiti State, Mr. Olayinka Balogun

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Lasisi has been arrested for allegedly raping and impregnating a 12-year-old pupil (name withheld).

PUNCH METRO gathered that the policeman also allegedly beat the girl's guardian, Mrs. Juliana Olajiga, who had gone to challenge him for defiling her ward.

The victim, who is an orphan, was said to have been raped twice by the policeman around November 2010 and is now six months pregnant.

It was gathered that Lasisi sighted the victim, who was sent on an errand in Basiri area of Ado-Ekiti, dragged her inside a bush and had several rounds of sex with the girl who is a JSS I pupil at a school in Ado-Ekiti.

The victim, who was said to be a virgin until she was raped was said to have stopped schooling, and her guardian expressed the fear that she might not be able to continue with her education.

Our correspondent learnt that sometimes in January, Olajiga became sick and her children took her away from Ado-Ekiti to attend to her health.

But when she returned sometimes in April, Olajiga was said to have noticed some changes in the body chemistry of the raped victim. After making enquiry, she discovered that the girl was already pregnant. Not satisfied, she took the girl to a laboratory and a clinical test conducted showed that the pupil is six-month-old pregnant.

The policeman was said to have injured the victim's guardian at her residence in Similoluwa area of Ado-Ekiti on May 12, 2011, when he was eventually found.

The coordinator of an Ado-Ekiti-based non-governmental organisation, Mrs. Rita Ilevbare, had in a petition written to the Commissioner of Police in Ekiti State, Mr. Olayinka Balogun, demanded that Lasisi should be arrested for allegedly raping the girl after the girl's guardian had sought the assistance of the group.

Ilevbare, who observed that rape was a serious crime, added that the case became more grievous when it was supposedly perpetrated against a minor by a law enforcement officer.

She said the suspect, if found culpable should be prosecuted to serve as a deterrent to others.

The petition reads in part, "The education and the future of such a great child has been dimmed by a man, a security agent for that matter, who by any reason should not allow the future of children to be tampered with. We demand that justice be done in this matter by arresting and prosecuting Olalekan (Lasisi) if indeed he is culpable."

The commissioner of police, who confirmed the receipt of the petition, told journalists in Ado-Ekiti on Tuesday that the suspect had been arrested on the strength of the petition.

He said the allegations were being investigated, adding that a senior police officer had been directed to handle the case.

Balogun who said he initially blamed the NGO for lodging the complaint late, he added that inspite of that, the case would be thoroughly investigated.

I can see the yorubas are now the chief rapists lol. First it was a traditional ruler and corper and then a lagos boy and his teenage gf now its a police man.

SMH @ this bast[i]ards[/i] poor little girl> if convicted he will make a good biiitch to some gay dudes in the jail. This kind of bullsh1t only happen in a lawless country called Nigeria. . .

N.Delta:

I can see the yorubas are now the chief rapists lol. First it was a traditional ruler and corper and then a lagos boy and his teenage gf now its a police man.

Stop showing off your ignoramus in public.

So sad. These rapeists dont have conscience.