Justice has been served in the case of a disabled Bauchi woman who was raped and had her eyes plucked out by 3 men in the state.
The men, said to be layabouts, and a native doctor they reportedly contacted to purchase the victim’s eyes have been arrested by the police.
The trio trade blame amongst themselves with one of them identified as Bitrus confessing his role in the gruesome act first.
He said:
“I am here because I committed a crime. We raped her and later removed her eyes. We were three. We did it at a spot called Kuzari. She asked us to give her some money and sleep with her. We went to a nearby bush and had sex with her. It was only me and Sabo that did it. Mohammed Sani did not have sex with her but he was the one that brought the idea that we
should remove her eyes”
Sanni however disagreed with Bitrus, he said
“I did not ask them to remove her eyes. It was Japanese (Bitrus) who is our senior that said he discussed with one native doctor that if he removed the woman’s eyes, the native doctor will give us N1 million. They asked me being the strongest to hold the woman. That is after Sabo
Bullet had slept with her. I held her down and Japanese (Bitrus) removed her left eye.”
The native doctor, Usman Sambo, is said to have promised the suspects N1 million for the eyes but he denied this.
he said:
“I was sitting on my own when Bitrus came
with the eye. He told me he had a woman’s eye but I didn’t see it. He asked me if I could prepare for him charms that will make him to disappear. I told him I am only a herbs seller. I don’t prepare charm to make people vanish at will. I
have never done it. I only treat people who are sick whenever my services are required. When I told Bitrus that, he left in anger and later the matter came that I gave him N1million. Did I look like a millionaire? The eye is with Bitrus but he kept denying it.”
The victim is currently recuperating at the
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching
Hospital.
This is indeed sad.
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