I Rape Women To Avoid Boredom – Suspect

A 26-year-old indigene of Enugu State, Uchenna Ugwu, has been arrested for allegedly defrauding some women and later raping them.

While being paraded at the Awka, Anambra State office of the Department of State Service, Ugwu confessed to the crime, adding that he raped his victims to fight boredom.

Ugwu who allegedly belonged to a syndicate, which specialised in luring ladies while pretending to be spiritualists, defrauding and raping them, further confessed that the group lures women into their trap and trick them into disclosing their ATM PIN codes. If a victim refused to comply, the group would threaten to inflict a strange ailment on her based on a spiritual power they possess.

It was learnt that, 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.

According to Ugwu:

“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.”

One of Ugwu's female victims told Punch Metro:

“I believe he used a charm on me. He told me if anybody heard about what happened, I would not live to tell the story....to be sincere, I did not know what I was doing....I lost my sense of reasoning during the process until after he raped me.”