The Osun State Police Command has arrested a industrial bike operator, popularly often known as ‘Okada rider’, Jegede Oladapo, for allegedly raping a teen.
THE POINT realized that the suspect, who was tracked and arrested is at present cooling off within the custody of the Police Space Command in Osogbo.
It was gathered that Oladapo, stated to be a married man, had negotiated with the sufferer merely recognized as Shindara (not actual title) and agreed to convey her from Ada city within the state to Ilesa.
The 19-year-old lady was stated to have agreed to pay the N2,000 the bike man charged her.
Shockingly for her, Oladapo, all of a sudden stopped at a desolated street path after Miccom Golf Ada, made a detour right into a lonely bush and forcefully had carnal data of her.
Whereas narrating her ordeals,
Shindara disclosed that the alleged rape occured round 5:30pm on Sunday, January 18, 2026 inside a bush in Ada.
In keeping with the sufferer, an undergraduate of one of many tertiary establishments within the state, she had traveled and whereas returning, she didn’t see any bus at Ada park to convey her to Ilesa. She, then, determined to go for a industrial bike.
Amid sobs, Shindara regretted hiring the industrial motorcyclist to take her to Ilesa, recalling how he brutally raped her regardless of her cries and screams.
“It was round 5:30pm on Sunday,
January 18, 2026, I used to be getting back from a journey and I wished to board a industrial car in Ada. I didn’t see any motor on the park. So, I noticed a motorbike man and requested him to take me to Ilesa. He stated I ought to pay N2,000; I begged him to take N1,500 however he insisted on accumulating N2,000. So, I accepted.
We began going. Instantly we strated the journey, he was making an attempt to interact me in some conversations however I made a decision not to concentrate.
Abruptly, the Okada man stopped the bike in the midst of a lonely street and requested for my telephone quantity. I discovered it suspicious and uncalled for and I advised him I don’t give strangers my quantity. However, he persevered and after I found he was already losing my time and contemplating the truth that the place he all of a sudden stopped was lonely, I worry absolutely gave him my quantity.
“Nonetheless sensing hazard owing to his attitudes, I began making a secret telephone name to my guardian in order to let him know my state of affairs.
As I used to be doing this, the Okada synthetic a flip into the bush. I used to be screaming however there was nobody round. He ended up raping me.”
On how she left the world, she stated,
“The telephone name I made to my guardian went by way of and he had picked and heard me shouting and name for assist. So, my guardian mobilised and went in watch of me.
“I used to be later discovered by the street facet within the bush however the bike man escaped instantly he completed raping me. I used to be then taken to a hospital.”
Shindara’s guardian, who didn’t need to be named, advised THE POINT that makes an attempt and search had been made to search out the suspect on the space however to no success. “So, we took her (Shindara) to the hospital and the Police,” he stated.
“The bike man was later discovered after I tracked his telephone quantity and he didn’t deny committing the of fence.
He has been with the Police ever since and nothing tangible has been accomplished in regards to the case regardless of the suspect’s confession,” he stated.
In the meantime, Shindara has appealed to related stakeholders for justice, claiming that the suspect has been making efforts to weaken the case and sweep it beneath the carpet.
This declare was corroborated by a human rights activist who’s aware of the matter.
“Surprisingly, moderately than charging the suspect, Jegejde Oladapo, to courtroom the Police in cost on the SIIB seems to be interesting on behalf of the suspect that fees be dropped.
We’re made to grasp that until we cry out the matter could also be buried and justice denied,” the activist stated.
Efforts to get reactions of the Police and the suspect weren’t profitable as on the time of this report.