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PHOTOS: Names of two convicted rapists entered in Ekiti s3x offenders register for gang r3ping a 13-year-old girl
The names of two convicts, Anu Olaniyi and Abidemi Alobaloye, serving life terms for gang r3ping a 13-year-old girl have been entered into the register of s3x offenders in Ekiti State.
The Ekiti State Ministry of Justice disclosed this on Friday, August 8, 2025.
A State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti Division the duo sentenced two men in March 2025.
The convicts, who committed the offences on December 28, 2020, were arraigned in court on the charges of conspiracy and gang r3pe.
During the hearing, the victim told the court, “I was sent on an errand on 28th December 2020 when one of the convicts intercepted me and purposely directed me to his friend’s place where they both forcibly had carnal knowledge of me one after the other”.
“I was able to recognise both convicts and they were later arrested and charged to court.”
The Director of Public Prosecution, Julius Ajibare, said that the offences committed were “contrary to Section 421 of the Criminal Law of Ekiti State, 2021 and Section 2(2)(c) of the Ekiti State Gender-Based Violence (Prohibition) (First Amendment) Law, 2020”.
Ajibare called four witnesses and tendered seven exhibits in support of his case.
But the defendants, who spoke through their counsel, Oluwafemi Alonge, gave evidence in their defence and called no witnesses.
In the judgement, Justice Adekunle Adeleye held that “the prosecution proved the offence of gangrape and conspiracy against the defendants beyond reasonable doubt”.
The judge consequently convicted the defendants and sentenced each of them to life imprisonment for gang rape and two years imprisonment for conspiracy.
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The spokesperson of the agency, Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, August 10, 2025 said the suspect was nabbed after months of fleeing abroad to evade arrest.
“Prophet Adefolusho was arrested at his church located in Okun Ajah, Ogombo road, Lekki area of Lagos on Sunday 3rd August 2025 by NDLEA officers who waited for him since morning to conclude the Sunday worship service in the evening before moving in on him the moment he stepped out of the church premises,” the statement read.
“The arrest came after he had evaded arrest twice and fled to Ghana to hide since June when operatives started trailing him following the seizure of two shipments of Ghana Loud, a strain of cannabis linked to him.
“The first seizure of 200kg of the psychoactive substance was made at Okun Ajah beach on 4th June 2025 while another consignment of 700kg of same substance was recovered from his delivery van on 6th July 2025.
“In his statement, he admitted ferrying the illicit consignments through the waterways from Ghana into Nigeria, adding that he had fled to the West African country to hide after he escaped arrest twice in the recent past.”
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