3 Kwara students sentenced for gang-raping a girl

On Monday, Justice Adenike Akinpelu of the Kwara State High Court, sitting in Ilorin, found three youths guilty of planning a gang rape of one of their cousins.

The victim (name withheld) was raped in the Adangba neighbourhood of the state's Ilorin East Local Government Area, and the defendants were found guilty of two counts of criminal conspiracy and the crimes.

The defendants, Mustapha Ahmed (age 23), Mustapha Ridwan (age 22), and Omotosho Yahaya (age 23), who is the victim's cousin, are all enrolled in a state-run university.

Yahaya, the first defendant, is accused of inviting his two companions to participate in the conduct while the victim was there.

They were sentenced to five years imprisonment each for rape and two years each for criminal conspiracy.

The sentences, which include an additional N50,000 fine imposed to be paid by each of the defendants, are to run concurrently.

Justice Akinpelu held that “The confessional statements of the defendants are clear, unambiguous and equivocal contrary to the argument of their counsel.


“No woman in her right senses will consent to and allow three men to have sex with her.”

She described the defendants’ claims that the victim owed them money as a “fairy tale” and pronounced them “guilty as charged.”

Reacting to the judgment, the prosecutor, Muslimat Suleiman, a principal counsel from the Kwara State Ministry of Justice, said the judge did justice to the case having evaluated and exhausted the evidence before her.

On his part, the Director, Office of the Public Defender, Ishola Olofere, who defended the first and second defendants described the judgment as a “good one, though it was against us, looking at the industry exhibited by the judge.”

Source: https://ribdo.com/news/3-kwara-students-sentenced-for-gang-raping-a-girl

Terrific humans....

Chineke m eeeeeee.

Good riddance to bad rubbish


Justice served accordingly