Lagos State Police Command Headquarters, Ikeja, has arrested a gang of male rapist who engage in raping their male victims in the State.
According to the Command, eleven suspected criminals who were arrested in the highbrow Lekki area, have confessed to the crime. The suspects stated that they belonged to a vicious gang of homosexuals that kidnap, extort and rape their male victims.
The revealed that their victims were only healthy-looking males. The gang maintained that they never had anything to do with females during their operations.
According to report, the suspects narrated how they joined the gang and how they carried out their atrocities in the State. They revealed that acts usually ended with video recordings of their sexual orgies with their victims. With this, they state that they extorted various sums of money from their male victims.
“One of the suspects who is a practicing lawyer and the oldest member of the gang however tried to cleverly exonerate himself. He insisted that he was “a bisexual male with feelings for both genders.”
During interrogations, the narrated in details their activities to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police Special Squad led by CSP Kehinde Oni. They stated that they engaged either their fellow gays or unsuspecting victims. Their area operation is usually in any of their apartments situated in the highbrow Lekki, Ajah and Badore axis of the city. The group maintained that they operate through a gay app or advertisements acting as estate agents.
One of the suspects is Esama Joel, 28, who is a POS operator at Jakande Estate Lekki.
He said, “I am from Edo State. I dropped out from Secondary School and came to Lagos where I started working as a Chef in a hotel. I was supplying liquid soap to hotels. And I was also the owner of the POS which the gang used to extort various sums of money from our victims.
“It was one Edet that introduced me to gay. What we usually do is to lure our victims to any of our rented apartments. And as soon as he entered the room, two of us would force him to have sex with us through the anus. While we were on it, other members would appear in the same room and start recording our sex orgies on video.
“Sometimes, all of us would satisfy ourselves with one victim or just a few of us. But as soon as we finished satisfying ourselves, we would show the victim the video recording. And we would threaten to post it on social media. This usually made them afraid and cry out, begging that we should state our terms. At that stage, we would request his financial details, and if he claimed he had no money, we would insist on calling either his parents or friends.
“This had always paid off hugely because we always ended up collecting all they had. Including valuables like gold, costly phones, etc. After that, we usually abandon them in the apartment and would relocate to another place,” Joel said.
Another suspect, Fuad Abioye, 23, a Muslim from Kwara State, also lives at Lekki. He said he dropped out of Secondary School and started repairing air conditioners.
Narrating his story, he said, “We are three in our family, and I am the firstborn. My father is a graphic designer while my mother is a trader. I am not married. Edet introduced me to the gay gang. I have been with them for over six months. I have succeeded in luring two victims to the gang. And we collected money from them after raping them through the anus. I have been giving some of the money I made to my father to complete his house. While I used the rest to pay my rent and furnish my house.”
Bruno Ebuka, 26, a Christian who lives in Ajah is another suspect. He confessed that he had four bank accounts and all the gang members had been sharing the money they realized from their victims. Ebuka specifically said that one of their victims did not have money and they had to call his mother, who transferred the amount to the gang.
Victor Ikechukwu, 18, a hotelier and Christian from Abia State, is another suspect who lives at Egbeda area of Lagos State.
Narrating his story, Ikechukwu said he was a front desk staff in a hotel at Opebi, Ikeja. He also sells clothes online and that his father died when he was 9 years old. While his mother lives in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State with his three siblings.
Ikechukwu said, “I set up two gay guys I met on a gay app called gender. We all agreed to have fun and that was why we hired an apartment where we live together. We indeed recorded our victims on video after which we threatened them and they would release money to us. Normally, we had three outings in a week. We used different apartments. Our gang members were also sleeping with each other.”
Okolie Francis, 23, a Christian and an entrepreneur from Anambra State said he lives in Badore. He claimed to have graduated from IMT, Enugu. He said one Mack Philips brought him to his house at Ibeju, Lekki.
According to him, “Philips was the one that introduced me to homosexuality. But when I stopped sleeping with him, he threw me out of his house. I was homeless until I met a friend who introduced me to the gang. I joined the gang because I was homeless. We used a gay app called Grinder to lure our victims. We also lure our victims at drinking joints.”
Another suspect, Kelvin Kalu, 33, the oldest member of the gang and a lawyer said he graduated from Madonna University, Okija in Anambra State. He also lives in Lekki.
“My problem started after I got a call from a friend called Johnson on 17th of March, 2024. He told me he was in a police station having problems with friends over a theft case. I went there to help them. When I got there, policemen were parading some suspects. One of them pointed at me saying that I was his gay customer. As a lawyer, I post job vacancies for Human Resources groups I belong to.
“One Victor reached out to me for the job and I requested his CV. But he instead sent his nude pictures to me. He was asking me for money saying that he was starving. And I decided to help by accommodating him. One day, after he asked for money and I did not give him, he started threatening me. He later visited my house twice, saying that I had sex with him. I am a bisexual male and I have feelings for both genders. I have had conversations with the same gender and it is about intimacy.”
Eno Joel Mbang, 25, a plumber from Cross River State is another suspect. He said he was working in a cleaning company at Lekki where he was paid N40,000.00.
I joined the gang in March this year. We kidnapped our victims, stripped them naked and made love to them. After which, we would record them and use it to extort money from them. I only benefitted twice since joining them. What we are doing is bad,” he said.
Another suspect, John Bitrus, 28, a businessman from Benue State said he was into liquid soap production. He joined the gang in November, last year.
His confession: “I have three sisters but I don’t know how many brothers I have. I came to Lagos through one of my uncles who is now in Cameroun. We all use the gay app. When we kidnapped or lured a victim, he would be taken to a room where one of us would try to seduce him. As soon as he was in the mood, others would jump into the room and record the action. At that stage, the victim would be begging that we should not post it on social media. We would then demand payment. If he didn’t have money, he would call his friends to send money. I can’t say how many men we have slept with or how much money we collected from them.”
Eureka Evans, 27, is a bartender from Anambra State and an undergraduate at the National Open University. According to him, “Our main motive was to reduce gay practice in the society. But the economic problems in the country made us decide to use it and make money.
The report also mentioned other suspects that included Opeyloyeru Aromide, a realtor from Oyo state, Edet Ekama, 28, from Calabar and Emeka Evans, 27. They all confessed their involvement in the criminal act and that they have benefitted from it.
According to Crime Guard the police source stated that the suspects were arrested after two complainants on the activities of the gang. The complaints alleged that they kidnapped and robbed at Lekki by the gang. They also stated that they were later held hostage in an apartment where the gang forcefully collected all their valuables. Huge sums of money were also withdrawn through their bank accounts.
“The case was reported at Maroko Police Station and when it got to the attention of the Commissioner of Police, Adegoke Fayoade, he swiftly swam into action. He transferred the case to his Special Squad with stern directives to crack the case and round up all the suspects.
Upon their arrests, investigations revealed that the gang also have international customers, especially from South Africa.
The police sources stated that the worse thing about the gang is their extorting activities. The source said, they are not only gays but they kidnap, blackmail, extort and rape their fellow men.
Crime Guard learned that after investigations, the suspects were charged to the Yaba Magistrate Court 3, Lagos. Their charges bother on conspiracy, kidnapping and robbery.
However, the sources revealed that the suspects were nearly granted bail by the court. This is after some interested parties permeated both the court and some investigators to reduce the charges.
The source stated that the Commissioner of Police was alerted to the plans to grant bail to the suspects. But he ensured that the suspects were duly remanded in prison custody pending the advice of the DPP.
However, sources said while the police were investigating the case, clandestine moves were made severally by some interested highly placed people in the society to compromise investigators without success.
According to police sources, “Some of the interested people claimed to be human rights groups, lawyers and concerned Nigerians but we did not capitulate.
source: Vanguard
