Police Release Top Official Rape Suspect Following Medical Report

Police in Ondo state has released a top official of the Akure Zonal Office of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council, Mr. Boma Benibo, 59 who was alleged to have defiled a seven-year old girl.

Image Maker of the Command Wole Ogodo said that the released followed the medical report which exonerated him of the allegation.

According to Ogodo, who spoke to the journalists in Akure, the police cannot continue to detain the suspect when the medical report has laid to rest that the allegation against him was false.

A copy of the report signed by Dr E O Adewale said that the victim in questio, Tomide Babadipe was not defiled as alleged by her parents.

The extract from the medical document reads:

"The above named child was brought into this faculty on 16th December 2013 with complaints of sexual assualt meted on her by a neighbour on Dec 10th 2013. Examination revealed a young girl with normal female external genitalia, intact hymen at the introitus. There was no signs of defilement in the recent time."

Girl's parents had reported to the police that the neighbour defiled their little daughter at there 18, Kola ogunmola Street, Ijapo Estate, Akure last week Tuesday. Following this Benibo was arrested.

Ogodo then said the "police was going to do a medical test on the girls to ascertain if the Beribo actually penetrated the girl.

He said,

"Yes, it is true, but we have a little problem to resolve, because the girl, on interrogation said the man was fiddling with his private part and did not penetrate her.The police is trying to take her to the hospital so that a proper medical examination will be done to determine the fact of the matter,”
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