Following the release of a video on the internet of a gang sodomizing two women who allegedly stole pepper, an elected official and the police issue conflicting reports about the incident.

Photo: Two members of a market vigilantee group sodomize the helpless woman accused of stealing pepper
 

 

Following the release of a video on the internet of a gang sodomizing two women, an elected official and the police are issuing conflicting reports about the incident.

Video footage shows a faceless gang attacking two women, unidentified, stripping them naked, and thrusting ground pepper and hard sticks into the genitals of one of them and covering her in a heavy liquid.  A second victim, a teenage girl, was tortured as well.   

Mr. Kehinde Bamigbetan, Chairman of Ejigbo government issued a press release today saying the sodomizing incident took place in the central market in Iyana Ejigbo in February 2013.  

According to Mr. Bamigbetan and his team, a practice of pepper sellers is to leave their goods on their stalls.  The sellers reported two women allegedly stealing the pepper, a woman and her step-daughter, to vigilantes they hired to secure the market.  After the torture by vigilantes, both females confessed to stealing the pepper and were let go.  Members of the vigilante group feared news of the torture would spread and those who carried it out would be penalized and the gang was disbanded.  The woman was identified as the wife of the palm wine tapper. The market since the incident has been converted to shops and rented out.

Mr. Bamigbetan released information collected by his team but people are questioning whether they have delayed reports and interfered with the police investigation.

Lagos State Police, however, said they have no clue yet on the location or the gang that carried out the torture. In a phone conversation with a citizen correspondent in Lagos, Mrs. Ngozi Braide, speaking for the Lagos State Police, who contacted the DPO at Ejigbo for an update said "there is no update what-so-ever on the identities of either the victims or the culprits."

Mrs. Braide asked that any member of the public with possession of information regarding the identity of the gang or victims, place of incidence, and other clues on the incidence should contact the police to order to assist their investigation.  

"We only saw the video on the internet and no can tell exactly where it happened.  You see, the setting does not really look like a marketplace.  It looks like a house."

She added, "it is a really wicked act, and you know, the victims also did not report to the police.  I saw how they were putting sticks in her private parts in the video.  It is very wicked."

The video has been condemned by civil society groups and women advocacy groups across the country.  The Women Arise Initiative, led by Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, said her group is planning a public protest against the brutality and to call attention to other violence against women in Nigeria.

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PHOTO: Man locked in CAGE by his mum for more than 40 years over fears he could hurt himself

Peng Weiqing, 48, has been in the cage in his mother's home in the city of Zhengzhou since he was six years old

 

 

A Chinese man has been locked in a cage for more than 40 years by his mother.

Peng Weiqing, 48, has been in the cage in his mother's home in the city of Zhengzhou, capital of central China's Henan Province, since he was six.

As a baby, Weiqing suffered brain damage following a fever. He then begun suffering severe epilectic fits at the age of six.

His mother, Peng Waimei, says she has kept him locked in the cage since then in order to protect him.

Fearing that he would hurt himself and unable to afford medical treatment, Waimei's husband built a series of cages that got bigger as Weiqing grew.

Waimei said: "He can't control himself.

"When he was young, quite often he would cut himself with a knife and glass debris.

"Even when walking, he could suddenly fall down and hit his face and make it bleed.

"He must know me, although he may not know the meaning of "mother". He is my 48-year-old child."

Aged 80 and with her husband now dead, Waimei fears for her son when she dies and hopes to find someone to take care of him.






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Tragic: Mum who drank from 'morning until night' found dead aged just 30 after falling down the stairs

     

An inquest heard Emma Hopwood would hide cider cans all over her home to disguise the amount of alcohol she was drinking

Tragic: Emma Hopwood
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Tragic mum Emma Hopwood fell downstairs and died after her drinking spiralled out of control.

The pretty 30-year-old mother-of-three began drinking from when she woke up in the morning until she went to bed at night.

Her good looks disguised the amount of alcohol she was getting through and she masked the scale of the problem by hiding empty bottles and cans around the house.

Emma’s mother Janet Maher, 48, from Stockport, Greater Manchester told an inquest: “The way my daughter died could happen to anyone young lady who drinks too much alcohol for her own good.

“She started drinking when she was a teenager when she used to go out to the pub with her friends like most girls her age.

“In later life she would phone me sometimes and I could tell she had had a drink because she was slurring her words.

“She always drank cheap cider and she used to hide empty cans. She would hide them in cupboards, in the laundry basket, in the toilet cistern, under the bed, in bags, in handbags.

“She used to go upstairs quite a lot and that was a sign that she was drinking. Later I would find empty cans in the bedrooms.

“I had to hide all the drink in the house. Towards the end I don’t know how many cans of cider she was drinking. “

Emma’s body was found last June at the bottom of the stairs at her home by her estranged partner, Barry Shepherd, with whom she had a stormy relationship. The couple split up after a series of drunken and violent rows.

Mr Shepherd told the inquest in Sale: “She was lay at the bottom of the stairs with her feet going up the stairs.

"She had blood on her nose and when I first saw her I was ready to 'say get off the floor, you silly devil.'

Tests showed she was more than three times the limit for drink driving and had two fractures to her skull after falling backwards down the stairs whilst unsteady on her feet.

Police found numerous empty cans of cider and numerous empty crates at the scene.

Miss Hopwood’s best friend Debra Walters told the hearing: “Emma was not a binge drinker.

"She was someone who drank from when she woke up to when she went to sleep.

“But she always tended to the baby. She always made sure he was fed and changed.

"It did shock me how she could drink and look after the baby at the same time.”

Returning an open verdict Coroner John Pollard said: “I think that Emma did bang her head on the stairs.”

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Australia: Horrific remote ‘incest cult’ in which brothers and sisters were encouraged to have sex and procreate.....children were deformed and unable to speak or wash themselves

Deformed children unable to speak or wash themselves have been discovered in a remote Australian valley in the worst case of incest the country has seen.

The 40-strong family of adults and youngsters are the result of four generations of inbreeding in which brothers and sisters were encouraged to have sex.

The depraved ‘incest cult’ was found living in squalid sheds, tents and caravans without plumbing or running water.

The family is believed to have been started by great-great grandparents who were themselves brother and sister

Younger members had oddly-formed features, severe learning disabilities and did not know how to use a toilet or loo roll.

They included a boy with a walking impairment and severe psoriasis, another with hearing and sight problems and a third boy whose eyes were misaligned.

A nine-year-old girl could not hear or write, had stunted speech and was unable to bathe or dry herself.

Sickening details of generations of child abuse emerged from the New South Wales Children’s Court which placed some of the children in psychological treatment programmes for over-sexualised behaviour.

The court’s findings are normally kept secret but judges took the unusual step of publishing details of the worst case of incest it had ever recorded.

Siblings who had sex as soon as they were old enough then had offspring which were also encouraged to procreate.

Fathers are also believed to have had sex with their daughters.

The family had moved around from South Australia to Western Australia and then back across Australia to the picturesque valley south of Sydney.

Their camp was only discovered when residents from the nearest town 20 miles away reported there were children living in the hills who did not attend school.

Stunned social workers found dirt-covered stoves and cooking facilities, rotten food in a fridge and a kangaroo sleeping on one of the children’s beds.

They were told how three brothers aged 14 and under tied their sister, 8, and niece, 13, naked to a tree.

The court documents revealed mouth swabs deduced five children had parents who were themselves “closely related” to one another while another five had parents who were “related”.

One resident from the town - the name of which has not been released - said people joked that if anyone came from that valley “you’d be inbred”.

The family has been given the new surname Colt to protect the identities of the children. Some have been placed with foster parents.

Another resident who saw them shopping told a Sydney newspaper: “They were never clean looking.

“There was nothing on the land where they lived. No electricity, no water - just scrub.”




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LAGOS - Key witness in a murder case hacked to death

Eniola Akinkuotu
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PUNCH - There was tension in the Yaba and Bariga areas of Lagos State on Tuesday after the murder of a 36-year-old man, Segun Ogbere, who was killed by members of a gang known as Downtown Boys.

PUNCH Metro learnt that Ogbere, who went by the pseudonym, Shaggy, was also alleged to be the leader of a gang known as Shaggy Boys.

According to Police sources, the victim is the key witness in a murder case against a former leader of the Ilajes in the state.

It was said that Ogbere was trailed from the Ebute Meta Magistrate’s court by Downtown Boys led by one Balogun, aka Small Jaypron, and hacked to death.

A police source said, “The former leader is facing a murder charge at the Ebute Meta Magistrate’s court for the death of one James Areomiye, who was slain last year. Ogbere was our only witness in the case.

“We were told that as Ogbere was about leaving the court, he saw some Downtown Boys around the court so he sneaked out of the premises, entered a commercial tricycle and fled. The hoodlums saw him and chased him.

“Ogbere saw his friend driving a tipper so he alighted from the tricycle, entered the passenger seat of the tipper, thinking the thugs were no longer on his trail. However, the assailants soon caught up with him.”

PUNCH Metro learnt that around 3pm, Small Jaypron, in company with three others in a vehicle, crossed the tipper around Adeshina Street, off University Road, Abule Oja, and dragged Ogbere out of the vehicle.

Eyewitnesses told PUNCH Metro that the hoodlums, who were wielding guns and knives, stabbed the deceased many times before fleeing.

“About four guys alighted from a red Volkswagen Gulf car and dragged the guy (Ogbere) out of the passenger seat and started stabbing the guy repeatedly and ripped out his intestines.

“Probably because this is a residential area and it’s always quiet, the guys did not fire a shot so as not to attract the attention of men of the Rapid Response Squad who are stationed on University Road.”

Our correspondent learnt that the incident caused a traffic snarl from University of Lagos gate down to Onike as loyalists of Shaggy were said to have protested his murder.

A landlady in the area, who wished to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the case, said policemen attached to Sabo Police Division did not respond to the distress call until an hour after the incident.

She said, “After the killing, about five of Shaggy’s boys, who were wielding guns, stormed the scene. As RRS men attempted to recover the corpse, the boys protested and beat up one Sergeant Innocent and vandalised the patrol vehicle.

“When we saw that the police were being overwhelmed, we alerted the Divisional Police Officer, Sabo, SP Anthony Aruna, but his men did not arrive until an hour later. It was members of the Odua Peoples Congress that were able to subdue them and arrest one of them.”

Meanwhile, our correspondent, learnt that Shaggy’s boys have threatened to carry out reprisals for their leader’s murder

Our correspondent, who visited Ilaje, Bariga area, on Wednesday, observed six police patrol vehicles in the area.

A senior police officer attached to Bariga Police Division, said, “We are here to ensure that the area remains peaceful. Ilaje is Shaggy’s stronghold and we want to forestall any reprisal.”

Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide, told our correspondent that the police had commenced investigations into the murder.

PUNCH Metro had reported that Balogun was arrested and charged with the murder of five people and was remanded in Ikoyi Prison but was released under controversial circumstances.

It had also been reported that many others had been killed in Bariga, Akoka, Yaba and Abule Ijesa areas due to the rivalry between the two gangs.

Braide said, “I am aware of the killing and the matter is now being investigated at the State Criminal Investigation Department Yaba. We are also on the trail of the suspects.”