Heartless robbers snatch man’scar, throw away 3-month baby,rape wife (PICTURED)

While travelling to their village for the weekend, a
middle aged nursing mother, her three months old
baby and husband had an unpleasant encounter with
an eight-man gang a few days ago in Kogi state.
The eight man gang dispossessed them of their cash
and valuables at gunpoint, took them in the family car
to a nearby bush where they tied the husband and
raped the wife who was at that time breast feeding her
three-month-old baby.
Parading the suspects before newsmen, the Acting
Commissioner of Police, Kogi state, Mr Abiodun Odude
said the family was travelling from Ogugu in
Olamaboro Local Government Area, Kogi State to Iga-
Ikeje when the robbers accosted them.
Odude said the victim (names withheld) a native of
Ogugu reported at the Olamaboro Police Division and
stated that he was travelling in his Toyota Corolla car
with his wife and baby when suddenly some eight
armed robbers accosted them, dispossessing them of
their car, N6600 cash and mobile phone sets.
The alleged robbers then bundled them into the vehicle
and drove them inside the bush about two kilometres
from the road, where the man was tied to a tree prior
to raping the wife.
Giving further explanation of what transpired, he said
the wife who was oblivious of their plan as she was
crying and begging them not to kill her husband.
In response to her pleas, one of the robbers gave her a
vicious slap, took the baby away and ordered her to
undress, while pointing a gun to her head.
He said the woman fainted after the ordeal – they took
turns in raping her in the presence of her helpless
husband.
Done with their evil business, they tied up her legs and
drove away in the car.
After about 40 minutes, the woman regained
consciousness, struggled to free herself and walked to
a nearby village, where she informed a group of
vigilantes, who later rescued the husband.
On receiving the report, a police patrol team led by Mr.
Mbang Eteng, an Assistant Superintendent of Police
tracked down and arrested two of the robbers, whose
names were given as Vincent Oguche from an
uncompleted building, and Femi Simon, who attempted
to run away, but was overpowered by policemen and
both of them taken into custody.
The police said the two suspects in the course of
interrogation confessed to the crime and thereafter led
the detectives to their hideout, where the stolen car,
assorted guns and handsets were recovered.
Vincent Oguche while acknowledging that he and the
others actually committed the heinous crime, explained
why they raped the woman despite that she was
nursing a baby, saying: “We were not in our right
sense because we were very high on drugs.”
The other suspect said he could not control his libido
when he saw his comrades-in-crime ‘enjoying
themselves’ so he had to join them to have a taste of
the woman.
The police are still on the trail of the remaining four
members who are still at large.