Bank cleaner allegedly rapes neighbour’s wife in Lagos
A 35-year-old bank cleaner, Essien Akpan, who allegedly grabbed and raped his neighbour’s wife was on Thursday arraigned in a Lagos Magistrate’s sitting in Ajegunle.
Akpan, a resident at 19, Prince Fadine Street, Olodi Apapa, Lagos, is facing a one count charge of sexual assault preferred against him by the police.
The prosecutor said ”The defendant was arrested after the victim called her husband who was out of Lagos, to inform him of what had happened to her.”
The victim had narrated that she came out of her apartment at 2am to pick her children’s clothes from the line since it was about to rain, when the defendant grabbed and raped her from behind.
“Before the incident Akpan, had approached me that he loves me and I told him that it cannot work because I am a married woman with four children, but he kept pestering me until the day he raped me,” the housewife and a mother of four said.
“I was picking my children’s clothes from the line, without knowing that he was outside, when all of a sudden he removed my wrapper and started raping me from behind, I shouted for help but nobody came to my rescue,” she said.
Akpan, however, said he didn’t rape the neighbour’s wife as she was his girlfriend.
“On March 28, at about 11: 30 pm, she called me to come and make love to her which I did and then, I told her that I love her, she now asked me why I didn’t tell her earlier, I then told her that I was afraid that was why I didn’t tell her,” he said.
The Magistrate Mrs Balogun granted Akpan bail in the sum of N50,000, with two sureties in like sum. She said that the sureties must show evidence of livelihood and tax clearance.
The case was adjourned till September 17, for mention.
