Operatives of the Ogun state police command have launched a manhunt to nab an ex-convict, Anu Orija who raped a 12-year-old girl to death.
Anu Orija who was recently released from prison is currently on the run after he raped a 12-year-old girl, Janet Fakeye to death at Fehintoluwa CDA in Idiya, Abeokuta North local government area of Ogun state.
NigeriaCrime.com gathered that Janet Fakeye was a Junior Secondary School student at Army Day Secondary School, Alamala, Abeokuta.
According to residents in the community the ex-convict who was convicted for assaulting a Point of Service Operator in the community last year, reportedly raped the minor shortly after he was released from prison, having served his jail term.
Family sources revealed that Anu Orija dragged the victim into his family house while she was running errands on Wednesday.
Anu Orija reportedly tied the hands, and legs and covered the mouth of the victim before raping her to death. After which he dumped the victim’s corpse in another building beside his house and ran away.
Recounting the incident that led to the death of the deceased, Sanjo Fakeye, said, my daughter went to buy detergent to wash her socks. when Janet arrived from school on Wednesday, she was writing her homework and after she was done, she told me she wanted to buy detergent in our neighbour’s house to wash her socks”.
“I gave her money to buy the detergent. As I gave her the money, I was sitting outside and after a while, I didn’t see her return from the place she went to buy the detergent, which is not far from the house”.
“So, I went to check on her, I was told she had been attended to and had left the place, I became agitated”.
“I thought that maybe she went to collect a book from her friend for her homework. I went to the friend’s place and asked for my daughter, but she said she had not seen her.
“I later went to report at the police station around 8 p.m after we had searched and could not find her. As we were heading towards the police station, I received a call from the community that they had found the dead body of my daughter.”
The deceased’s mother, Tayo Fakeye, while speaking said, that the suspect was seen briefly before the incident happened.
She said many people heard the barking of a dog in the house while he was dumping her daughter’s body in the other building before he escaped.
According to her, the soap and the blood stains were seen in the suspect’s house while he ran away through the back door.
“After committing the crime, some women saw him coming out of the building. But before the men could reach there, he had left after he had dumped the body of the girl inside the next house and a dog started backing.
“We want the government to help us and arrest him. We saw blood stains on the floor. We also saw the detergent she went to buy. The policemen also saw it”.
Nigeriacrime.com gathered that the youths burnt the house because of the incident. The owner of the house, who was the father of the suspect, died just a month ago.
When contacted, the spokesperson of the command, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi said, the suspect would soon be arrested and made to face justice.