Rape victims yearn for more

Rape victims yearn for more

Possibility of rape is always there whenever armed bandits come knocking in homes where female occupants, the under aged inclusive, are found. Most criminals are, more often than not, tempted by the sight of women. They tend to forget their original mission, in their warped reasoning of unwinding during operation. In other words, ‘all work and no play, makes a robber a dull criminal’. There was an instance when the entire female members of a household were raped by a gang of robbers after their operation and forced the family members into voyeurism.

But it was a different experience for two Calabar girls who reside at Tudun Wada, a sprawling settlement of Jos, capital of Plateau state, when a 5-man gang of armed robbers paid them a visit not too long ago. The hoodlums had gained admittance into a face-me-I-face-you compound. Two of the robbers were stationed outside to ensure all was safe after they had forced the main door into the compound open. They advised the tenants not to waste their time trying to alert the police and ordered them to leave their door open, warning that wherever they had to force their way in, the tenant would receive a bullet for disobedience.

The bandits then went from room to room, robbing the tenants of their cash, laptops, handsets, jewelries and other valuables. Then they came into one of the rooms occupied by the two voluptuous Calabar girls. Momentarily, they forgot they were on a robbery operation. The sight of the two girls in their night gowns sent their imagination running riot. They asked the duo to cooperate with them, assuring them that no harm would come their way and that as far as they were concerned, what nature has endowed them with was more valuable to them than their handsets and trinkets. Frightened into submission, the two girls eased themselves on their mattresses. Two of the operating robbers put formalities aside. The third robber stood by the door to ensure the safety of his robber-turned-sex thieves.

At first, the rapists had some difficulty finding their way down. So, the robbers asked the girls to get into the mood fast or they would be hard on them. A few minutes down the line, the robbers began to wonder whether they were committing rape or having affairs with their girl friends as the Calabar girls eventually got into top gear with them.

As the extra curricula exercise was taking too long, the robber at the door became agitated. He urged them to melt down fast, reminding them that nemesis might use their sexual desire to land them in big trouble. After they were done, the robbers released some parting shots into the air as they fled the scene with the loot in their getaway Golf car.

The co-tenants who sensed what the Calabar duo had gone through trooped into their room to share in their grief. The girls appeared sober, morose and taciturn. The next morning, a female tenant in the next compound who heard what happened to the Calabar girls went to the compound to commiserate with them. She expected the duo to be weeping but on the contrary, she observed that the girls were calm, almost too calm for girls who went through a rape experience. Then on her way out sympathizing with the other tenants, she heard the two girls laughing and saying in their room: “Don’t mind those naïve sympathisers. If only they knew what really happened. Those guys who handled us the way no man has ever done before…” One of them actually said that her useless boyfriend could not do five per cent of what that armed robber did with her! Their only regret was that the armed robbers did not leave their contact address behind, as they would not have hesitated to contact them for a repeat performance. They actually wished the armed robbers would return for another session. The sympathizer was stunned and disgusted by the discussion of the two girls.



“These girls are sick; they need help”, she mused as she walked out of the compound.