Rape suspect says he assaults women to fight boredom

isaac

April 23, 2015 2:40 PM

A local fraudster popularly called 'wash-wash' has told the police that he rapes the women the dupe to kill boredom.

The police has arrested a fraudster who says he rapes women to kill boredom.

A serial rapist and fraudster who is now in the custody of the Anambra State Police Command, Uchenna Ugwu, arrested for allegedly defrauding some women and then raping them, drew serious laughter from the operatives when he confessed that he actually rapes the women to kill boredom.

The 26-year-old Enugu State indigene, while being paraded at the office of the Department of State Service in Awka, the state capital, told the police that he belongs to a syndicate which specialises in luring ladies while pretending to be spiritualists, before defrauding and raping them.

According to reports, the modus operandi of the group was to lure women into their trap and initially tricking them into disclosing their ATM PIN codes.

It was learnt that if a victim refused to comply, the group would threaten to inflict a strange ailment on her based on a spiritual power they possess.

Having succeeded, the gang members would take their victim to an arranged prayer house, where she would be compelled to take a oath never to disclose her experience to anyone. The victim would then be raped on the pretext of making a charm for her.

Ugwu and his group operated in Asaba, Delta State, and Obosi, in the Idemili North local government area of Anambra State for a long time, before luck ran out on Ugwu.

He was arrested by the DSS based on petitions from some of the victims.

Ugwu, a primary six drop out, said poverty led him into the crime.

Hear him:

"I joined this business to fight boredom because my former work was not going on fine and had shut down.

My parents, who are still alive, are poor and because they cannot sponsor my education, I had to stop at primary six.

I have suffered a lot in the hands of these people (DSS) and I promise not to indulge in this act again in my life; this is a lesson to every young man that doing evil is not the best."

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