Osun State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a medical doctor, Olayode Akangbe Shakiru, for alleged assault and rape of a teenage girl.Confirming the arrest, Spokesperson of the Command, Yemisi Opalola said investigation was being carried out by the police.
She revealed that the suspect, Shakiru, was arrested on Thursday by a team of policemen from Oke-Baale Police Division in Osogbo after the family members of the 18-year-old girl reported the matter.“On Thursday, he was arrested by the police along the road while returning to Osogbo from Ipetumodu along Ile-Ife road,” the PPRO said.Opalola added that the medical doctor had been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department for further action.Shakiru had approached the victim (name withheld) while walking on the road in Osogbo and offered to give her a ride to her destination.Before dropping her off at Oke-Fia Area of Osogbo, the medical practitioner collected her phone number and promised to get her a job so that she could raise money for her studies.The rape was committed at the suspect’s house at Ilesa Garage area of Osogbo where the teenager has gone to sign the purported job form.
Narrating her ordeal, the teenager said she left her residence in Osunjela community to Osogbo to search for a job and while roaming the streets, she met Dr Shakiru, who offered to assist her.On the action she took after the incident, the teenager said, “I went to my older sister and narrated my ordeals to her. It was after that, that she took me to Oke-Baale Police Station in Osogbo and we reported the rape incident.”Meanwhile, a text message the medical doctor reportedly sent to the victim on WhatsApp, telling her of his intention to secure an employment for her has been retrieved as exhibit in the case.An elder brother to the victim, who did not want to be named, said the girl could not locate the house when the police took her there to arrest the suspect.“We took the Police to Atoke Hospital, Igbona Area where he claimed to be working. The nurses at the hospital said he is a ‘listed doctor’ as he comes once a while to attend to patients,” he added.