Commercial driver lands in police net for robbing, raping undergraduate

The long arm of the law has caught up with a 35-year-old driver identified as Yusuf Waheed after he was nabbed by men of the Ondo State Police Command for allegedly robbing and raping an undergraduate.

According to reports, the suspect committed the crime sometime last week when his female victim joined his vehicle from the Agbogbo area of Akure, Ondo State, en route to Ile-Ife, Osun State.

After all passengers who boarded his vehicle had alighted at their destinations, the driver saw that the female undergraduate was left in his car and he decided to take advantage of her.

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Waheed reportedly drove his victim into a bush brought out a knife and threatened to kill her if she didn’t allow him have his way.

According to Mr. Femi Joseph, the state Police Public Relations Officer, after raping his victim, Waheed dispossessed her of her iPad and the sum of N4,000.

The PPRO said; “A search warrant was executed in his house. A flash drive with the iPad cover of the student was also recovered.

“He has confessed to the crime and blamed his action on the devil. We will soon charge him to court.”

 

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