A staff of popular radio station, Cool FM, Otun Segun, has been charged with rape for allegedly assaulting a former school mate(name withheld).
Segun who was arraigned on Thursday before an Ogudu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State, pleaded not guilty to three charges; rape, assault and threat to life, and was granted bail in the sum of N200,000 by the Magistrate, Mrs. O Sule Amzat, who ordered that the bail should be accompanied with two sureties in like sum whose addresses were to be verified by the court.
According to the prosecutor, Sergeant Ihiehie Lucky; “On November 24, the complainant, a 22-year-old, name and address withheld, who had just completed her NYSC programme, came with a written petition to the command against the defendant, her former school mate.
“According to the complainant’s statement to the police, she had met the defendant some time in January and he asked her for a relationship.
“She said that after much pressure from the defendant, they started dating online before she later broke up with him.
“On November 23, she went with her friends to Magodo in the Shangisha area and that’s where the defendant sighted her again.
“He came to her and her friends and excused her for a discussion which the complainant obliged based on the fact that they were former school mates and had not been in touch for a while.”
Ihiehie said that they both got to the defendant’s house which was in the same area.
“When they got to his house, the complainant waited in his sitting room, while the defendant went to have his bath and came out with only a towel.
“He then asked the complainant why she had broken up with him and she replied that she had found out that he was dating her sister.
“He then replied that it wasn’t true that they were only friends and went into his room only to come out with a cutlass.”
Ihiehie said that the defendant then threatened the complainant, saying that if she refused him to have sex with him, he would injure her.
He said that the defendant assaulted the complainant by dragging her by her pair of trousers, carried her to his room, forcefully tore her clothes after struggling with her, pushed her to the bed and had sex with her without her consent.
“When he was done with her, the complainant was in tears while the defendant pleaded for forgiveness for his actions.”
The Magistrate, Mrs O Sule Amzat, adjourned the matter till January 27.
