Police in Ogun State have rescued a 24-year-old Dubai returnee
from the custody of an Islamic cleric five months after he allegedly abducted
her from the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Ikeja, Lagos State.
The suspect, Olalekan Anifowoshe, aka Alfa, was said to have kept
the victim, Simbiat (pseudonym), in his rented apartment in the Atan-Ota area
of the state and allegedly had sex with her during the period.
A Good Samaritan, who saw her in May, informed her family and the
case was reported at the Onipanu Police Division, leading to Alfa’s arrest.
Simbiat and the 42-year-old suspect were neighbours in the Surulere area of
Lagos.
The suspect’s wife and three children also resided in Surulere.
The woman consulted him in 2013 for help over a spiritual attack before
travelling to Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Simbiat, who spoke with Punch Metro, explained that after she
received a call from Alfa on January 11, 2016, instructing her to come back to
Nigeria, she lost her senses and returned to the country immediately.
The victim said that the Alfa had slept with her for at least 10
times, adding that anytime she demanded to see her parents, he would beat her
up and boast that she had reached her “final destination.”
She said: “Sometime in 2013, I had a dream that a man made love to
me. A friend introduced me to him and he gave me a piece of white cloth with
Arabic inscriptions to cover my body whenever I wanted to sleep, which I used.
Some months later, I travelled to Dubai.