- By Halimah Olamide
Luck has run out for a 26 year old commercial bus driver in Osogbo, the Osun state capital after he was accused of using charms to hypnotise a 15 year old girl.
NPO Reports learnt that the victim whose name was not given had boarded the commercial bus (korope) in Osogbo but rather than be driven to her destination, lost consciousness and found herself in the house of the bus driver.
It was gathered that luck ran out for the driver as the girl regained consciousness when the man made attempts to forcefully have sex with her.
Raising an alarm in the process, she was said to have attracted the attention of neighbours and staff of a private a security company nearby who arrested him and handed him over to the Amotekun operatives.
Amotekun’s Commander in Osun, retired Brig-Gen Bashir Adewinmbi, stated, “The victim said when she resisted the suspect, he brought out a black substance which he licked and commanded her to go home and pack her belongings to his house.
“The girl said the suspect rode on a commercial motorcycle with her to her residence to ensure that she did not go against his directives.
“She said when she got home; she regained her senses and raised an alarm which attracted men of the private security outfit who arrested the suspect,’’ he stated.
Adewinmbi added that the suspect confessed to the crime during interrogation and admitted that it was not his first time of hypnotising women with charms.
He stated that the suspect had been handed over to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons at Osogbo for follow-up interrogation and possible prosecution.