Ondo State Police Command says the soldier who was accused of raping a female student of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA) Ondo State, would be charged to court later this week.
The State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Femi Joseph, who disclosed this, noted that police were currently assembling facts for the prosecution of the suspect.
Joseph said the military had last week’s Friday, handed over the suspect to the command and that he was already in the custody of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) awaiting arraignment.
“The military authority had handed the suspect to us and I can authoritatively confirm this to you. The suspect would be charged to court later this week.
“Before then, we would have assembled all our facts for diligent prosecution. We commend our sister agency for taking necessary steps which will serve as a deterrent to others who might want to indulge in such heinous crime in the future,” he stated.
It would be recalled that the victim, said to be a 300-level student of the Department of Religious and African Studies of the university, was allegedly raped by some soldiers at a checkpoint in Ikare Akoko on Wednesday penultimate week.
The student was allegedly forced to alight from a commercial bus by one of the soldiers.
He allegedly dragged the victim into a cubicle at the back of checkpoint, where she was allegedly assaulted sexually.
The victim was said to be returning from the campus when the incident happened. It was earlier reported that the student was gang-raped but it was gathered that the investigation by the army revealed that only one of the soldiers committed the offence.
It was gathered that earlier before handing over of the case to the police, the suspect, who was identified as Lance Corporal Sunday Adelola, has been dismissed from the service by the army.
