*18yr Old Boy Caught Sleeping with a Dog in Edo State*

18yr Old Boy Caught Sleeping with a Dog in Edo State

According to Vanguard Newspapers, 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
beforethe crowd stormed the scene. Ighodaro was in JSS 2
beforehe 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 beforein 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 freewith 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”.
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