A student of Ladoke Akintola University of
Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo State has narrated
how robbers invaded their hostel,raping them and
forcing them to have $ex with each other..In
tears,Bimbola (not real name) agreed to narrate her
ordeal to a Punch correspondent last Monday.
What she pa$$ed through in August was painful,
unimaginable and dehumanising. In fact, she might
not be able to forget that night in her life.Ever
since the incident, everything about her has
changed, according to her friend.
In the night of August 13, 2015 – around 12
midnight – she said she and her roommate had
returned from a night reading cla$$ in preparation
for their forthcoming exam in November, locked
their room and were about to sleep when they
heard their hostel mates jamming their doors,
screaming and walking up the hostel stairs.
Before they knew what was happening, the men
were at their door and expectedly, they forced the
door open.
“Come out now or we will kill you,” she recalled
what the men told her and her roommate, and
with fear and trembling, the girls did their
bidding.
Three hefty fearful-looking men, clad in black polos
and jeans, armed with guns, machetes and axes
had stormed their hostel – located in the Under G
Area of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology,
Ogbomoso, Oyo State – and demanded that all the
students, both male and female, should gather in
one room.
While one of the hoodlums stayed with the
students, pointing guns at them should they
‘misbehave,’ the other two locked the entrance to
the hostel, ransacked all rooms one after the other,
stole the students’ laptops, money, debit cards,
tablets and mobile phones.
But even after stealing all their property, the
robbers were not done. The next command they
gave the students was what Bimbola has not yet
got over with.
She narrated,
“They r*ped some girls in our presence, but not
only that, they asked us to start having $ex with
ourselves. They called from among us a guy and
a girl and asked them to have $ex with
themselves, right in everybody’s presence. They
threatened to use their weapons on us if we
didn’t cooperate. Then they asked all of us to
strip nak*d. Since it was in the night, most of us
ladies already had only our night gowns on,
while most of the guys were just putting on
boxers. They said we should all be nak*d. When
they were satisfied, they called another pair of
students to do the same thing and told
everybody to watch.
“For about three hours, they dehumanised us,
humiliated us. Unfortunately, nobody in the next
hostel knew what was going on; if anyone knew,
they would have helped us to call the police or
the Student Union Government officials.”
But what was more pathetic about Bimbola’s story
was that she didn’t just witness the whole action;
she was also asked to have $ex with a guy she
never dated.
“Everything happened like it was a dream. They
pointed at a guy I knew as my junior and asked
him to do ‘it’ with me. When I refused, they
slapped me and I fell. I had no option than to do
it. I looked at my roommate and she was already
shedding tears for me. How humiliated I was!”
she cried.
She further told our correspondent,
“It was not a night to remember. I wish I could
erase it from my memory. My friend and I returned
to the hostel that night after reading in the
school because our exam is fast approaching. If I
knew something like that would happen, I would
have stayed in the school till the morning, but I
needed to prepare for the following day’s work. I
had just finished having a shower when my
roommate and I observed something was wrong.
There was no light, so we couldn’t see properly,
but we observed that our hostel mates were all
jamming their doors at some men’s command.
“They cramped all of us in one of the rooms
upstairs and we were all frightened. My parents
are not yet aware of this incident and I don’t
wish to share it with anyone again. I only agreed
to speak to you because my friend here
encouraged me to and I feel something should be
done by the authorities concerned to stop this
barbarism. I know I’ll be fine soon.”
Since July when they resumed for the semester,
the students of LAUTECH have been witnessing
robbery attacks and r*pe by the same set of
unknown men – who call themselves ‘Three
MOPOLs’ each time they barge into their victims’
hostels.
The Welfare Officer of the Student Union
Government of the institution, Ridwan Okedara,
said he could not count the number of calls he had
received ever since the incident started occurring
in July up till about two weeks ago. He said it was
unfortunate that the hoodlums had yet to be
apprehended.
He said,
“I’ve received calls in the past four months
almost every pa$$ing night about this incident.
Victims and eyewitnesses usually say the
robbers were always three and they would tell
them they were the ‘Three MOPOLS,’ but we are
not sure if they are not even more than that. For
instance, there were some nights when I received
calls that the robbers were operating in the
Adenike Area (a popular students’ residential
area near the school) and I would quickly call our
security officers to go to the said hostel, but few
minutes later, I would receive a call that they
were operating somewhere else.
“Before the security people could get there, the
robbers would have left and we would hear they
had started operating somewhere else. We don’t
know their tactics yet. From what we have heard
from eyewitnesses, they would enter a hostel,
pretend as if they were looking for somebody and
before the students knew it, they would threaten
them with guns and machetes and ask all of them
to be inside one particular room after collecting
their phones, laptops and money. They ask the
students to strip off their clothes – both male
and female, then ask them to start having $ex
with themselves. They could call a male from say
200 Level and ask him to have $ex with say a 400
Level female student.
“These robbers r*pe our students and then ask
the students to have $ex with themselves. We’ve
heard a case when the robbers used white
handkerchiefs to wipe the private parts of the
students after the act. We are also suspecting
ritualism here. They go to hostels anytime from
8pm to 1am and from eyewitnesses’ accounts,
there was usually no light anytime the hoodlums
carried out their operation.”
This is exactly what another victim of robbery in
September by the same
The other victim who spoke with our correspondent
said,
“It was very dark and there was no light to see
their faces when they came to our hostel. They
told us they were the ‘Three MOPOLS,’ and mere
looking at them, we could not imagine how they
were able to gain entry into our hostel and
ordering all of us to go inside one room. We were
told to take off our clothes and they r*ped some
of the girls. They didn’t r*pe me and they didn’t
ask me to have $ex with anyone, but they stole
my laptop and phone. It was traumatic. It was
like experiencing hell that night.”
