While being led in evidence by Mr F. O. Ligali, the lead prosecuting counsel, she said “I usually close from school at 4 pm. from Mondays to Thursdays and 2 pm. on Fridays.
“Whenever I’m coming back from school, he (defendant) usually makes advances at me and sometimes brings out his penis and shakes it at me,” she said.
The student said that one day, when she was opening the gate to the compound of her home, the defendant approached her and told her he wanted to see her neighbour in the compound.
She said that immediately he got into the compound, he overpowered her and defiled her.
“He threatened me that if I should tell anyone about what he did to me, he would kill me,” she said.
The complainant said she did not tell anyone about the incident and that three days later, he approached her again while she was opening the gate of her compound, telling her again that he wanted to see her neighbour.
“He promised not to rape her and when he got into the compound, he rushed at me faster than the first time and raped me.
“He again threatened to kill me if I should tell anyone,” she said.
The complainant said that she did not tell her parents about the incident but that she revealed the incident after a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) came to give sex education in her school.
She said she confided in a member of the NGO team about the defilement, who later informed her teacher who, in turn, told her to inform her parents but that she declined to tell her parents out of fear.
According to her, her mother was informed about the defilement by her teacher during a PTA meeting, while the mother informed her father who, in turn, reported to the authorities.
Kayode, in his defence, denied defiling his neighbour.
“I had, at no time, visited the complainant’s compound. Their gate was always locked with a padlock,” he said.
Before the sentence was passed, Saheed Sanusi, the defence counsel, in his allocutus (plea for mercy), had asked the court to temper justice with mercy.
