I have had sex with 5 dogs, boy tells police

*Taboo …gods to be appeased — Villagers
*Suspects to be charged with unnatural offence
By Simon Ebegbulem, Benin-City
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”.