I had sex with five dogs, boy, 18, tells police

Amid the fear of the Ebola virus in the country, it was
with disbelief that residents of Iguosa community in
Ovia North East Local Government Council of Edo
State ran to an uncompleted building in the area to see
an 18-year-old boy, simply identified as Ighodaro,
making love to a dog .
Curiously, the dog was said to have enjoyed the sex
before the crowd stormed the scene. Ighodaro was in
JSS 2 before he dropped out from school, due to the
inability of his poor parents to pay his school fees.
He learnt welding, but, while doing that, he became a
lover of dogs. He confessed
he has slept with different dogs five times until this
last episode. It was learnt that a member of the
community was passing by the uncompleted building
when he sighted the boy making love to the dog and
raised the alarm that attracted the villagers.
Mr George Ogbonmwa, owner of the dog, expressed
shock at the incident, explaining that when he saw the
young man with the dog, he did not know he had an
ulterior motive. “I thought he wanted to play with the
dog only for him to end up in an uncompleted building
where he had canal knowledge of the dog.
This is like another dream to me because I have not
seen this kind of thing in my life before”. Following
what the villagers described as an abomination, the
Odionwere (head)of the community, Elder Clifford
Igiehon, was invited to the scene and expressed shock
over the incident which he described as a taboo.
He said,”We have never seen this kind of thing before
in this community. This is an abominable act and we
don’t want the suspect to come and corrupt other
people here. What he committed was a taboo. We will
call the parents to come and atone the gods but the
boy will go on his own, because we cannot kill him.
But we have killed the dog because that is the first
thing to do. And because we don’t want this kind of
taboo to happen again, we decided to hand the boy
over to the police. This kind of thing has never
happened before, the boy has to face the music. The
parents will perform traditional rites, it is going to cost
about a hundred thousand Naira.
The boy knows what he is doing, he is not mad. We
know him from the beginning, he was in school before
he went to learn welding; may be the parents could not
pay his school fees. We were even shocked he said he
has had sex with dogs five times; that will tell you he
knows what he is doing”.
The community leaders further used the opportunity to
appeal to the police: “Give us more policemen in our
area because a lot of evil things are happening now.
Like what the boy did is a taboo and they must
cleanse the land with the appropriate sacrifice. We
need the police to be around us so that these evil
happenings will stop”.
The suspect, who
said he did not know what was wrong with him,
admitting that he enjoyed sex with five dogs while two
bit him during the act. “I learnt welding around Iheya.
I don’t know when I slept with the dog, I slept with
dogs five times. Some of the dogs bit me, I have been
bitten two times and each time I have a dog bite my
grand father will treat me”, he said.
Asked about the tactics he deployed to attract the
dogs, Ighodaro stated: “When I call them, I will be
rubbing their head, petting them so that they will feel
free with me. I will be playing with them and they will
follow me. They will bark at me some times, and when
I notice that it is serious I will leave them. Any one that
is friendly with me, I take that one to an uncompleted
building and have sex”.
The suspect who was asked about his girl friend, said
he broke up with her last year and started making love
to dogs this year. His words: “ I had a girlfriend last
year but we are no longer together. I started sleeping
with dogs this year around March. I don’t know what
is wrong with me.
None of my relations knows I sleep with dogs. In this
particular case, the dog is very familiar with me; so it
was easy to lure it away. While I was having sex with
the dog, one man saw me and ran to inform the
Odionwere. They now came to pick me and they asked
the police to go and check me and see if I have any
disease. I don’t know what is wrong with me”.
Edo State Police Commissioner, Foluso Adebanjo, who
reacted to the incident, narrated: “It was the people of
that community that arrested the boy and called the
police.
He was taken to Owotubu Division before he was
transferred to the state Police Command Headquarters.
What he has done is classified under Unnatural
Offences, Section 214 Sub-Section Two which says
that any person who has carnal knowledge of an
animal is guilty of a felony and he is liable for
imprisonment for 14 years if he is found guilty. We are
going to charge him to court. You can see that the guy
is not denying anything.
He made a confessional statement that he has been
sleeping with dogs since March and he has done it five
times. I was very worried because this is an unnatural
offence and it can bring problem to any community.
You can imagine a human being sleeping with a dog
what will that dog produce in some months time; , you
can see it is a bizarre situation. The boy looks normal
unless if he has spiritual problem because I can’t
imagine some body sleeping with a dog.
He said he had a girl friend before; you can imagine if
he decides to sleep with another woman what he will
give the woman and that is how they spread diseases
particularly now that we have different diseases, It is
really shocking that we experience this type of issue
every day in our country. I am very worried but thank
God that the community people have killed that dog
because they said what the boy committed was a
taboo”.