Obesere arrested for alleged rape

Popular Fuji musician, Alhaji Abass Akande, popularly
known as Obesere, has been arrested by the Police in Lagos State
for allegedly raping a 29-year-old business woman, Miss Olanike
Olaiya in his Okota residence, Lagos.
The victim, who took the matter to the Police, also narrated her
ordeal in the hands of the musician whose shows generally
fascinate society women.
According to Olaiya, a National Diploma graduate of business
administration from Ibadan Polytechnic, “I got to know Obesere
through one of my friends, Mrs Bola Okoro. She told me that
Obesere would assist me in my business.
“I deal in office equipment and when I contacted Obesere, he asked
me to meet him in his family house at Okota. When I met him, I
introduced my business to him and he promised to connect me to
some of his friends in Dubai who would sell goods to me on credit.
“After the discussion, he started demanding for sex and I refused
and when I wanted to leave, he insisted I should sleep over in his
house because it was late and he claimed that it was dangerous to
go out late in the night in his area.
“I thought he was a responsible man and I decided to sleep over,
but at the dead of the night, he came into the room where I slept
and pounced on me.
“He raped me and afterwards inserted a ring he wore into my
private part and I started bleeding. He hurriedly left me in the room
saying he had an appointment to fulfil.
“I could not bear the trauma and the bleeding and I reported the
matter to the police.”
Vanguard gathered that Obesere was first arrested last Wednesday
by the Police at Isolo Police Division, where Olaiya reported the
matter. He was subsequently released on administrative bail.
He was later re-arrested on Monday, when medical examination
conducted on Olaiya revealed that she was actually raped and the
Divisional Police Officer, Isolo, Adamu Ibrahim, was said to have
ordered the transfer of the matter to State Criminal Investigation
Department, SCID, Panti, Yaba, for further investigation.
Sources disclosed that Obesere’s arrest was made possible through
a warrant of arrest issued by the Chief Magistrate of Isolo
Magistrate Court, Mrs Kike Bukola Ayeye, as he had declined to
honour several police invitations sent to his house at Johnson
Famiye Street, Canal Estate, Ago, Okota.
We are lovers — Obesere
Police sources also said Obesere in his statement denied ever
raping Olaiya, rather he claimed she was his lover and they made
love when she visited him.
The source added that Obesere claimed he asked her to go to a
private hospital for treatment when she complained that she was
bleeding, but he was surprised when she reported to the police that
she was raped.