A 19-year-old girl, Enomfon Sunday, from Urua Ikpa, in the Itu Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, on Monday escaped being raped by a four-man robbery gang.
It was learnt that the robbers entered the bedroom where Sunday was sleeping and asked her to close her eyes while being led away from the house.
According to Sunday, two of the robbers who led her out at gunpoint, said they were going to rape her outside the compound and on the ground since her grandfather, Mr. Sunday Esoh, had refused to give them the money he realised from the sales in his provisions store.
Sunday told our correspondent that when she had been led out, she asked them to allow her open her eyes so as not to miss her steps and trip.
She explained that the robbers agreed that she should open her eyes after she had assured them that she was not going to run away.
She added that as they asked her to lie on the ground, she told them that the ground was too cold because of the late evening rain.
Sunday, a prospective student of the University of Uyo, stated that as the robbers went to fetch benches for her to lie down from a shop, she escaped to a nearby bush, where she hid till daybreak.
“I was lying down on the bed when someone told me to wake up. As I opened my eyes, I saw two men standing by my side, one pointing a gun at my face and the other was with a machete.
“They asked me to close my eyes and led me outside, saying that since my grandpa did not give them the money he realised from the sales of provisions in his store, they were going to rape me outside so that he could hear my cry,” she said.
Sunday stated that after she had escaped, the robbers went into another compound, brought out a girl and raped her in the open.
She said she did not know the identity of the girl.
Her grandpa, Esoh, said he heard the armed robbers entered into the house, adding that they ordered him to come out.
He said he ran to one of his inner rooms, but the robbers had entered his main room, broken into his safe and made away with N87,500.
They also took one of his clothes.
According to him, the four-man gang also ransacked the tenants’ rooms and stole large sums of money from them as well as from other people in the neighbourhood, whose compounds they broke into and stole laptops, phones, among other items.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Cordelia Nwawe, said the police were not aware of the incident.
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