‘I was raped several times in a day’ – Teenage Boy Remanded in Prison Recounts Ordeal

A teenager simply identified as Bashua has revealed how he was raped several times at 16 while in Kirikiri Prison, claiming the police doctored his age to ensure they arraigned and sent him to prison.

According to New Telegraph, Bashua, a secondary school student who regained his freedom recently through an NGO led by a Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Mr. Giwa Amu, said he was returning home from a coaching class when he was arrested by a team of policemen. He said,

“I was remanded at the Kirikiri Prison and experienced being locked with over 100 inmates who were older than me. I was molested sexually. I was raped several times in a day.

They would tell me not to cry. I was in remand for one month and those days were hell for me. I was going home from Epe, after coaching class, when a team of policemen on patrol arrested me at Obalende and took me to Bar Beach Police Station, Victoria Island.

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The police kept me in a cell with other boys and suspects for one week. I was arrested on November 20, 2014. The policemen told me and the other boys that we belonged to a gang that attacked a team of policemen. I denied the allegation.

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I told the policemen that I’m a secondary school student. I was just 16-year-old, but they did not listen to me. They beat us mercilessly and said we should shot up. I was in police custody for one week with other boys. Our parents were not aware we were in police custody.

The police arraigned us at Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Obalende. They doctored my age from 16 to 19 years. The magistrate ordered we should be remanded in prison.”

Mr. Giwa Amu who facilitated his freedom added, “His age was doctored to be 19. We started rehabilitating him since he was released because he told us that he was kept in the open cell where there is high activity of homosexuality. He said he was raped several times a day. He is undergoing treatment and we have placed him on scholarship so he can continue his education.”