Tina Amanda
A 17-year-old girl identified as Binla has alleged that a Police officer known as Salihu Kazeem alongside his boys stripped her and her friend naked, raped them and made a nude video of their naked bodies.
She said the officer also them of stealing his five hundred thousand (500,000) naira.
In an interview with our correspondent, Binla disclosed that in March this year, she approached a friend of hers to discuss on how she can get a job and her friend introduced her to officer Salihu Kazeem who promised to help her with her job search.
“On discussing with my friend about the job I was looking for, she told me that she is going to visit her friend and that I should come with her, maybe I can talk to the man and he will be able to help me. So when I met the man, I talked to him, He asked my age, and I told him, that I am 17 years old.
“He told me that since I am 17 years old, there are some jobs that I cannot do and promised he will see what he can do and get back to me. After then, he asked us if we have eaten, and we said no, and he gave us his ATM card to go and get anything we want to eat, we went and bought food and came back with the ATM card and gave him his ATM card.
“When he collected his ATM card, he began to complain that he has gotten several debit alerts on his phone, we asked him the amount but he refused to tell us. It was just recently he told us that he has received a debit alert which amounts to 500,000 nairas.
“So a few minutes later, he discharged my friend that brought me and detained me and another girl who I met there that we both bought food with his ATM card.
“He called his boys and told them we are thieves, they ordered us to pull our clothes. After pulling our clothes, he recorded our nakedness. He told us if we don’t cooperate with him he will spread our nude videos, he took us to a room, spread teargas on us and slept with us till the next morning before discharging us.
“Close to one month he was abusing me, like three times, each time he comes if I refuse to go with him, he would threaten to share our nude videos on social media, then I will go with him and he will sleep with me.
“This last one he came, I was not around he told my friend they should tell me to come. When they told me, I refused to go. Then on Monday when I was going to sew my slippers, he met me on the road and asked me if my friend did not tell me to come, I said they told me, he asked why I did not come, I said nothing then he dragged my phone from my hand, that I should come with him.
“He threatened me that when am ready to pay him the 500,000 that he lost in his account then I should come he will give me back my phone.
“I went to the Rumupakani (Ada George) Police station in Obio Akpor local government area to lay a complaint and some Police officers accompanied me to the man’s house but we did not see him.
“The moment I got home, I was told some boys came to look for me and I do not know the boys. My life is under threat, I don’t know if he is the one that sent the boys. I am calling on the public to help me because my life is under threat”.
When contacted the Police Officer, Salihu Kazeem, told our correspondent that the girls did not come back that night but gave the ATM card to one of their girlfriend to bring for him after several hours he waited for them to return.
He alleged that he has been receiving debit alerts ever since he gave the girls his ATM card even up to last Saturday, August 27, 2022.
He denied taking nude videos of the girls while maintaining that they stole 500,000 naira from his account.
The Police officer, however, stated that the three times the girl said he used blackmail to sleep with her after that fateful day because of the nude videos was with the girl’s consent and he paid her for all the times he had sex, denying that he raped her.
On the issue of the phone, the Police Officer accepted seizing the girl’s phone last Monday (August 22, 2022) because one of her friends allegedly used her phone to threaten him.
Meanwhile, the Centre for Basic Rights Protection and Accountability Campaign has called for a thorough investigation into the incident.
A lawyer with the human rights advocacy group, Festus Bonwin, in an interview with Journalists advised the Police officer to submit himself for Investigation. He called on the Rivers State Police Command to investigate into the matter between the girl and the Police officer and if anyone is found culpable, the person should be charged in court.
