Division in Lagos State have apprehended two
gangsters for allegedly raping and killing an
18-year-old commercial sex worker,
Oluwatosin Ami.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the suspects, John-
Paul Chukwuebuka, 19; and Ebuka Chimudi,
22; belonged to a gang which specialised in
luring young ladies to hotels with the aim of
dispossessing them of their belongings and
raping them.
According to police authorities, on April 10,
2013, two members of the gang posed as
customers and visited the Happy Day Hotel,
Orile.
Oluwatosin was approached by the suspects
and she took them into her room at the hotel
which she secured at the cost of N3, 500 per
day.
The suspects were said to have overpowered
Oluwatosin and stuffed a cloth in her mouth
to prevent her from screaming.
She was also bound by the hands, while the
suspects took turns in raping her.
Afterwards, the suspects were said to have
stolen her phone and money before locking
her inside the room.
The suspects were also said to have taken the
key of the room and tossed it into a canal.
A relative of the deceased said the following
morning, when the hotel attendants wanted to
clean the hotel rooms, they knocked on the
door of the room where Oluwatosin was, but
there was no response.
It was learnt that the attendants then used a
spare key to open the door and the corpse of
Oluwatosin was found.
Her father, Babatunde, told PUNCH Metro
that the matter was reported at the Orile
Police Station and his daughter's corpse was
taken to the Mainland Hospital, Yaba.
Babatunde said he had no idea that his
daughter was a commercial sex worker.
He said the family had been looking for her
since December last year and had reported
her missing at the Adeniji Adele Police
Division on the Lagos Island.
He said, "My daughter was in JSS3 in 2012
when she dropped out of school. She said she
wanted to be a sales girl and we got a job for
her, but she did not stay there. Suddenly, in
December last year, she left the house and
did not return home.
"Her mother and I called her on the telephone
several times, but she would say she was fine
and putting up in a friend's place. She used to
visit her grandmother, but in January, she
stopped picking calls.
"All attempts to get her proved abortive. We
did not hear anything from her until we
received a telephone call a few days ago,
saying her corpse had been found in a hotel."
The mother of the deceased, Muibat, lamented
that Oluwatosin was her third child that
would die within five years.
She said the deceased was her first born and
she had only two children remaining.
She said she did her best as a parent and
wondered why her daughter chose such a
lifestyle.
When our correspondent approached the
hotel for comment, the employee at the front
desk said the management had given
instruction that journalists should not be
spoken to.
However, an employee of the hotel told the
police that the rule of the house was that
more than two patrons should not be in a
room at the same time.
The employee said he was not aware that
Oluwatosin had taken two people into her
room.
The suspects, in their statements, confessed to
killing Oluwatosin, but said it was by mistake.
They said they only played a minor role in the
crime as the prime suspects were still at
large.
The police explained that 19-year-old
Chukwuebuka was arrested by members of the
Odua Peoples Congress at City Point Hotel,
Apapa, where he had gone to commit a
similar crime.
Through Chukwuebuka's confession, Chimudi
was arrested.
Chukwuebuka identified other suspects as
Williams, Victor, Joshua and Kojo.
He said, "We have been doing this thing for a
while now. We have operated in brothels in
Ajegunle and Kirikiri. I have raped over five
girls, but none of them died.
"We operate in hotels where there is loud
music and many rooms. We usually use rooms
that are not located on the ground floor so if
a victim shouts, no one would hear her."
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