Amid the fear of the Ebola virus in the country, it was with disbelief that residents of Iguosa community in Ovia North East Local Government Council of Edo State ran to an uncompleted building in the area to see an 18-year-old boy, simply identified as Ighodaro, making love to a dog

 Amid the fear of the Ebola virus in the country, it was
with disbelief that residents of Iguosa community in
Ovia North East Local Government Council of Edo
State ran to an uncompleted building in the area to
see an 18-year-old boy, simply identified as
Ighodaro, making love to a dog
Curiously, the dog was said to have enjoyed the sex
before the crowd stormed the scene. Ighodaro was in
JSS 2 before he dropped out from school, due to the
inability of his poor parents to pay his school fees.
He learnt welding, but, while doing that, he became a
lover of dogs. He confessed to Sunday Vanguard that
he has slept with different dogs five times until this
last episode. It was learnt that a member of the
community was passing by the uncompleted building
when he sighted the boy making love to the dog and
raised the alarm that attracted the villagers.
Mr George Ogbonmwa, owner of the dog, expressed
shock at the incident, explaining that when he saw
the young man with the dog, he did not know he had
an ulterior motive. “I thought he wanted to play with
the dog only for him to end up in an uncompleted
building where he had canal knowledge of the dog.
This is like another dream to me because I have not
seen this kind of thing in my life before”. Following
what the villagers described as an abomination, the
Odionwere (head)of the community, Elder Clifford
Igiehon, was invited to the scene and expressed
shock over the incident which he described as a
taboo.
He said,”We have never seen this kind of thing
before in this community. This is an abominable act
and we don’t want the suspect to come and corrupt
other people here. What he committed was a taboo.
We will call the parents to come and atone the gods
but the boy will go on his own, because we cannot kill
him.
But we have killed the dog because that is the first
thing to do. And because we don’t want this kind of
taboo to happen again, we decided to hand the boy
over to the police. This kind of thing has never
happened before, the boy has to face the music. The
parents will perform traditional rites, it is going to
cost about a hundred thousand Naira.
The boy knows what he is doing, he is not mad. We
know him from the beginning, he was in school
before he went to learn welding; may be the parents
could not pay his school fees. We were even shocked
he said he has had sex with dogs five times; that will
tell you he knows what he is doing”.
The community leaders further used the opportunity
to appeal to the police: “Give us more policemen in
our area because a lot of evil things are happening
now. Like what the boy did is a taboo and they must
cleanse the land with the appropriate sacrifice. We
need the police to be around us so that these evil
happenings will stop”.
The suspect, who spoke to Sunday Vanguard at the
Edo State Police Command Headquarters, Benin-City,
said he did not know what was wrong with him,
admitting that he enjoyed sex with five dogs while
two bit him during the act. “I learnt welding around
Iheya. I don’t know when I slept with the dog, I slept
with dogs five times. Some of the dogs bit me, I
have been bitten two times and each time I have a
dog bite my grand father will treat me”, he said.
Asked about the tactics he deployed to attract the
dogs, Ighodaro stated: “When I call them, I will be
rubbing their head, petting them so that they will
feel free with me. I will be playing with them and
they will follow me. They will bark at me some times,
and when I notice that it is serious I will leave them.
Any one that is friendly with me, I take that one to an
uncompleted building and have sex”.
The suspect who was asked about his girl friend, said
he broke up with her last year and started making
love to dogs this year. His words: “ I had a girlfriend
last year but we are no longer together. I started
sleeping with dogs this year around March. I don’t
know what is wrong with me.
None of my relations knows I sleep with dogs. In this
particular case, the dog is very familiar with me; so it
was easy to lure it away. While I was having sex with
the dog, one man saw me and ran to inform the
Odionwere. They now came to pick me and they
asked the police to go and check me and see if I have
any disease. I don’t know what is wrong with me”.
Edo State Police Commissioner, Foluso Adebanjo,
who reacted to the incident, narrated: “It was the
people of that community that arrested the boy and
called the police.
He was taken to Owotubu Division before he was
transferred to the state Police Command
Headquarters. What he has done is classified under
Unnatural Offences, Section 214 Sub-Section Two
which says that any person who has carnal knowledge
of an animal is guilty of a felony and he is liable for
imprisonment for 14 years if he is found guilty. We
are going to charge him to court. You can see that the
guy is not denying anything.
He made a confessional statement that he has been
sleeping with dogs since March and he has done it
five times. I was very worried because this is an
unnatural offence and it can bring problem to any
community.
You can imagine a human being sleeping with a dog
what will that dog produce in some months time; ,
you can see it is a bizarre situation. The boy looks
normal unless if he has spiritual problem because I
can’t imagine some body sleeping with a dog.
He said he had a girl friend before; you can imagine
if he decides to sleep with another woman what he
will give the woman and that is how they spread
diseases particularly now that we have different
diseases, It is really shocking that we experience this
type of issue every day in our country. I am very
worried but thank God that the community people
have killed that dog because they said what the boy
committed was a taboo”