'Alfa' Allegedly Rapés Teenager During Deliverance

Wonders, they say will never end. This could best describe the
purported spiritual cleansing exercise by an Islamic cleric, Alfa
Isiaka, on Nafisat Gafari, an 18-year-old girl in Ibadan.
Alfa Isiaka had visited the victim's hairdressing salon shop at
Orita-Aperin, Ibadan. On sighting her, Alfa professed that he saw
calamitiés before her and told her that only spiritual deliverance
could save her from the impénding danger.
Gullibly, Nafisat agreed to follow the Islamic cleric to his house at
Oja'ba, where unknown to her, Alfa Isiaka was alleged to have had a
cárnal knowledge of her while she slépt off.
Nafisat woke up to the reality that someone had slépt with her, while
according to her, she was unconscious of happenings around her.
Recounting her ordeal at the police station, Nafisat, according to
sources, said that the only thing she could remember was that she was
given a drink and after consumption, shecouldn't recollect anything
until after she woke up to discover that Alfa had allegedly had séx
with her.
The victim had since reported at the Mapo police station, Ibadan and
is currently under investigation, while the suspect is currently
atlarge. Police sources however, informed Crime & Security that
efforts were at advance stage to apprehend the suspect.
When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Oyo State
Police Command, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Bisi Ilobanafor,
confirmed the story and even expressed worry at the increase in cases
of rapé these days.
"There is obviously an increase in rapé cases these days, apparent of
which is the increase in awareness, because victims nowadays come out
to report unlike before when we only heard about rapé cases, but the
victims would be afraid to come out and speak. I don't think rapé
victims should be ashamed of speaking out.
Anytime there is a rapé or defilément case, the case is always
transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID)
Iyaganku, Ibadan because of the importance attached to it.
In a related development, one Yetunde (Surname witheld), of Ilupeju
area, Ibadan, Oyo State, was also rapéd last week. Olapade, Crime &
Security learnt left home in company of her brothers and sisters to
watch a masquerade show. While returning, Olapade said some criminals
accostéd her and dragged her to one corner where three of them rapéd
her and ran away.
All efforts made by the patrol team to arrest the hoodlums proved abortivé.