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| Late Juliana died few weeks after the torture |
The family of the women sodomized and tortured by members of the Odua People’s Congress (OPC) is speaking out about the perpetrators and victims in the Ejigbo Pepper Sodomy case, and now it a clear case of murder.
There were three victims in the crime - the sodomized woman, Juliana, her stepmother, Ajoke, and her stepsister, Nike, 12. The 12 year old is the second victim in the video clip. The third victim, Ajoke, was brought in for torture but not shown on the video that circulated.
Juliana, who was very obvious in the video is dead.
The video first aired on the internet in February 2013 shows a faceless gang attacking two women, unidentified, stripping them naked, and thrusting ground pepper and hard sticks into the genitals of one of them and covering her in a heavy liquid. A second victim, a teenage girl, was tortured as well.
Mr. Agomah Freeman, the palm wine tapper, whose wife and children were tortured was said to have been billed N150, 000 by a powerful traditional ruler in the area to have his family released to him, and was banished from the area. Mr. Agomoh and the rest of his surviving family have now relocated to Ilorin in Kwara after failing to pay the “fines” imposed by the traditional ruler and political associates of the Ejigbo local government chairman, Kehinde Bamigbetan.
Mr. Agomoh has now publicly admitted that his daughter, Juliana, died a few weeks after the torture in Ajase, Contonou, Benin Republic, where she had gone for treatment in her his hometown. That not only was she blinded and sodomized with pepper, but also her breasts were sliced leaving her with a deadly injury that got infected.
