Robbers Rape Sisters

But for her ingenuity in feigning pregnancy, the daughter of a Customs, Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) officer would have been the third in their family to be raped by a group of armed robbers in one night.

Besides writhing in pain from two broken legs at the hands of armed robbers, Nathaniel Kofi (not real name) is nursing the psychological trauma of having his malefactors rape his two daughters with a third escaping only by inches.

Although the incident occurred a fortnight ago, it was only on Thursday that the Police sought a statement from the armed robbery victim on his hospital bed at the 37 Military Hospital.

The CEPS officer suffered his ordeal when he returned from church on that fateful day.

“It was around 10.15pm and I had just returned from the Apostles Revelation Society at Kotobabi No. 2 near Coca Cola on the Spintex Road. My daughter, who is fond of poking jokes, rushed to tell me that armed robbers had stormed the house,” he narrated.

He said when he proceeded to find out what was happening he saw three young men aged between 18 and 20, with one of them armed with a locally manufactured firearm.

“I engaged them in a struggle in the bedroom and we ended up in the hall. Outside the hall I slipped,” he indicated.

One of the robbers, he said, then picked up a nearby shovel with which he proceeded to hit at his legs and body until the two limbs got broken.

Realizing that they had rendered him incapable of repulsing their onslaught they proceeded to where his daughters were and he soon heard one of them crying; she was being raped. They did not stop there but proceeded to another one, but when they turned to the third one she feigned pregnancy and begged and they obliged and let go their grip.

Before the operation the robbers had locked up some young men staying with the CEPS officer at the residence, a situation which made it impossible for them to come to their master's assistance.

The third girl who escaped the rape made a call to her father's
boss who in turn called a Police Patrol team.

The team could not locate the house, so the distressed girl called the boss again and he assured her that the team would come.

When the CEPS officer asked what the robbers wanted, they said “money” and he parted with GH¢150.

They appeared unsatisfied and turned to a nearby wardrobe and emptied it of GH¢500, topping it with Dell and Toshiba laptops.

One of them then asked that they quickly leave the house as a car was waiting. It turned out that there were others on guard outside the house.

The robbery victim is pained that house numbers do not help when Police teams respond to distress calls.

By Razak Margodyz Abubakar