The Nigerian Army in
Enugu has paraded 21 Enugu State University of Science and Technology students
for allegedly torturing and forcing some female students into lésbian acts.
The students, most
of who confessed to being cultists, told journalists that they took video shots
of the lésbian act because they had been offered money by some influential
Nigerians.
The idea, the
suspects said, was to
take tapes of the scenes to their partners in Europe.
Shortly before
parading the suspects on Saturday, the General Officer Commanding 82 Division,
Maj. Gen. Sarkin Yaki Bello, who spoke through the Assistant Director, Army
Public Relations, Lt. Col. Sagir Musa, said the cultists, were arrested in
their hideouts at Agbani on the outskirts of Enugu between July 8 and 12, 2011.
Bello said the
patrol team of 103 Battalion moved to the ESUT following persistent gunshots at
the institution on July 4 and arrested one of the masterminds of the crime, Mr
Franklin Anikwe, with five rounds of ammunition.
The GOC said he had
directed that a thorough investigation be carried out in order to fish out the
pepetrators.
He said, “It was the
preliminary investigation conducted by the division’s intelligence group that
led to the arrest of the 19 other suspects. Some of the items recoverd from
them are four locally made pistols, 10AA cartridges and video clips where the female
students were forced to have illicit stuff with themselves during the raid.”
Also recovered were
10 mobile telephone handsets, including the one used for recording the dirty
scenes.
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