ANOTHER RAPE: BARAKAT BELLO RAPED AND KILLED IN IBADAN

Barakat Bello

Despite the massive outcry over the rape and killings of Vera Uwa Ozozuma, an undergraduate in Edo state, another dastard act has happened again in Ibadan.

Barakat Bello, another young female student has been raped and stabbed to death in Ibadan, Oyo State, by yet to be identified persons.

 We gathered that the 19-year-old student of Institute of Agriculture, Research and Training, Ibadan, was attacked and killed while in her parent’s house in the Akinyele area of Ibadan on Monday evening.

Father of the deceased, Kasimu Elepo, said that he was not at home when the incident occurred.

He stressed further that the deceased's sister was also out of the house at the time the tragic incident occurred.

According to him, the victim’s sister found Barakat’s body at the back of the house in a pool of her blood when she returned from Quranic lessons that fateful day.

“I was not at home when the incident happened. The younger sister was not at home too, she went for Quranic lessons but when she returned home, she saw her at the back of the house with deep cuts all over her body. She had been raped and killed.

“Somebody called me on the phone that I should come home but he refused to tell me what happened. When I got home, I saw that my daughter had been raped and stabbed to death.” The distraught father lamented.

Elepo, who could not contain his emotions, revealed that the police in the area had begun an investigation into the matter.