Couple, Cleric in Police net over rape, defilement of minors in Ekiti

<p>Thirteen suspected criminals have been paraded by the Ekiti State Police Command for various offences ranging from drug trafficking, armed robbery, rape and conspiracy.</p>, <p>The suspects were paraded with various items recovered from them, including household items, power-generating sets and forty bags of cannabis sativa.</p>, <p>Operatives of the Juvenile Women Center (JWC) attached to the Criminal Investigation Department, Ekiti State Police Command, also paraded a couple, Olomolaye Sesan and his wife Kehinde, for allegedly raping a 17-year-old girl and causing her grievous harm.</p>, <p>The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, Sunday Abutu, who paraded the couple alongside other criminals at the command headquarters along Iyin, Ado-Ekiti, said the victim, a student of a public Secondary School in Ilawe-Ekiti, is a younger sister to Kehinde Olomolaye who stays with her and hawks good.</p>, <p>The Ekiti State Police Command spokesperson said Kehinde Olomolaye connived with her husband to rape the victim many times.</p>, <p>The couple, according to the PPRO are currently helping the police on the investigation while they have equally confessed to the commission of the crime.</p>, <p>He said they would be arranged before a judge as soon as possible.</p>, <p>In a related development, the police also paraded a 43-year-old Islamic cleric, Saliu Rasak, for allegedly defiling two teenage girls in Agbado-Ekiti, Gbonyin local government area of the state.</p>, <p>The police said the victims had approached the cleric in a quest for spiritual favour and later visited his residence for more spiritual power.</p>, <p>The suspected cleric who is currently undergoing interrogations was alleged to have given them a certain soap and claimed that the victims were going to be receiving favour after bathing with the soap.</p>, <p>The victims were then lured to the cleric’s residence, where he forcefully had carnal knowledge of them as part of the conditions for the soap to work effectively.</p>, <p>The police