Nigerian newspapers · 3 June 2020
18 Year Old Raped, Murdered in Ibadan
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- Nigerians decry rising spate of rape across the country.
As the world still tries to grapple with the reality of the rape and gruesome murder of Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, a student of University of Benin, Edo State, another young female student named Barakat Bello has been raped and stabbed to death in Ibadan, Oyo State, by yet to be identified persons.
Bello Barakat, aged 18, was a year one student of Federal College of Animal Health and Production in Ibadan.
It was gathered that the 19-year-old student of Institute of Agriculture, Research and Training, Ibadan, was attacked and killed while in her parents’ house in the Akinyele area of Ibadan on Monday evening.
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Father of the deceased, Kasimu Elepo, said that he was not at home when the incident occurred. He stated that the deceased's sister was also out of the house at the time the tragic incident occurred.
According to him, the victim’s sister found Barakat’s body at the back of the house in a pool of her blood, with deep cuts all over her body, when she returned from Quranic lessons that fateful day.
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He said, “She had been raped and killed."
“Somebody called me on the phone that I should come home but he refused to tell me what happened. When I got home, I saw that my daughter had been raped and stabbed to death.”
Elepo, who could not contain his emotions, revealed that the police in the area had begun an investigation into the matter.
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It was gathered that she has been buried according to Islamic rites.
Meanwhile, National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Southwest, zone D has demanded justice for the deceased who was assaulted and murdered.
Her death has continued to attract outrage nationwide as Nigerians have taken to social media to express their displeasure over the rising cases of rape in Nigeria with the hashtag #JusticeforBarakat.