Ms Olanike Olaiya, a 29-year-old business woman who had lodged a rape complaint against popular Fuji musician, Alhaji Abass Akande (popularly known as Obesere), has insisted that the musician did forcefully take advantage of her in his home. Obesere was granted bail from the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti in Yaba, Lagos last week and has insisted that he only had consensual sex with Ms Olaiya and that the woman ran to the police just to extort money from him.
The musician insists he was involved in an affair with the woman and that whatever happened that night behind closed doors between them both, had the seal of approval of two consenting adults.
Speaking with the Vanguard however, Ms Olaiya said Obesere did rape her and expressed frustration with the way the matter was handled at Panti by the police. She says the Investigating Police Officer at Panti was hell bent on destroying the case in favor of the Fuji crooner.
“I knew him barely two weeks ago and we were talking business. But he raped me on our first meeting in his house”, she said. Obesere had corroborated this part of the story when he said he got to know the lady through a mutual female friend and business partner. He also said the mutual female friend in question had confessed to him that Ms Olaiya and herself had hatched a plan to blackmail him, eventhough she hadn’t bought the idea which was first mooted by the alleged ‘victim’.
“Like I told you earlier, I met him through a friend who is much older than me — she is over 49 years old— and she told me that Obesere helped her in her business and he could do same for me”, Ms Olaiya continued.
“She was the one who arranged the meeting at Obesere’s house, but Obesere made me wait for at least five hours until it became late for me to go after the meeting.
“Even when I insisted, he refused to let me go claiming his area was not safe and that everybody knew I was in his house.
“I slept over, but not in his room. He raped me and inserted a ring in my private part. I wouldn’t have gone to the Police if it was just the rape because it was my fault. As an adult, I should have known the danger of passing the night in a stranger’s house”.
She said the insertion of the ring must have been done for ritual purposes and rejected claims that she wanted to blackmail the Fuji crooner.
“I went to the police because I was bleeding and when I informed him about it, he didn’t take me seriously. He asked me to go to a private hospital in Ejigbo. But when I got there, the doctor did not even touch or examine me in any way.
“He just asked that I go for a scan, which is not done in that hospital. I left the hospital in pain and I reported the matter to the police.
“I wanted the police to be aware of what happened and prosecute him for forcefully having sex with me against my wish.
“I also have to clarify the issue of wanting to blackmail him. From the beginning, I rejected all the money he offered me as settlement.
“You can ask the DPO at Isolo. He is aware that I rejected all the money he offered me. All I wanted was for him to be prosecuted for taking advantage of me because I slept in his house.
“Also, I wanted him to explain to the Police why he inserted a ring into my private part that made me bleed for two weeks and possibly reverse any ritual step he may have taken”, Ms Olaiya said.
Obesere, legally married to another woman, had said his wife understands his extra-marital trysts given his profession.
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