Shocking!!! 3 men rape & pluck out eyes of physically challenged woman over N1m

Shocking!!! 3 men rape & pluck
out eyes of physically challenged
woman over N1m(Pictured)
Zainab, 30, a mother of four miraculously
survived the double tragedy of being brutally
raped by three men who later removed her eyes
with a knife on March 1, 2014 at Lukshi village,
Dass Local Government Area of Bauchi State.
Zainab’s case becomes more pathetic because
she is physically challenged. The victim, who is
barely five feet tall, was said to have been struck
by a mysterious illness when she was a child
and was left almost incapacitated, with her left
arm and leg almost useless. Although Zainab
manages to move around by limping, walking
for her is a herculean task.
It was getting dark in the evening and Zainab
Mohammed had just taken a bend through a
footpath path at Kuzari going to her house when
she heard footsteps and whispers behind her in
the bush. Then came three men like a bolt from
the blue who accosted her.
“I turned and asked them what they wanted
from me and they said they wanted to follow
me. I said follow me for what? What did I do
to you that you want to follow me? Do I owe
you money that you want to follow me? I told
them to leave me alone. I don’t want my
husband to hear that men were following me.
 I told them to leave me alone but they
refused.Suddenly, they held my hands. I was
struggling to free myself from their grip. They
held my neck and I almost died. They twisted
my hand, they opened my two legs and took
turns to rape me. I was fainting. Then they
brought an object-I don’t know whether it was
a knife or not and they started removing my
left eye. I screamed and tried to struggle but
they removed my left eye. They started
removing the other eye and I screamed harder.
Then I heard a male voice saying this scream
inside the bush is not normal and people
came”, she stated, adding that that was the
point her assailants took to their heels.
The victim said she knew two of the three men
that attacked her. “One of them is called bullet
but I don’t know the name of the other one.
They use to go round the village aimlessly
drinking alcohol”
What did I do to them to deserve this? I will
never forgive them, Allah. I will never forgive
them for what they have done to me. It is better
if their eyes are removed just as they have
removed mine. I need revenge. That is what
my heart desires”,
Her husband, Mohammed Saleh could not
control his emotions as he broke down.
“I was in a friend’s house when the news of
what happened to my wife reached me. In our
tradition we do not accompany women to
ceremonies. They go with their friends and
relations that are women. When I realised it
was getting dark, I went to my friend’s place. I
met someone there who told me that my wife
had gone home. I decided to go home. On
reaching the house, I did not see her so I went
out to look for her. I met someone on the way
and on asking he replied, ‘do you know what
happened to your wife?’ I followed him down
to Luschi Primary School where I saw my wife
in the pool of her own blood. It was terrible.
That was how we rushed her to the hospital”,
Why we did it –Suspects
Bitrus is a tall, huge man with kola-stained
teeth from Dado village in Dass local council
area who mends broken domestic plastic buckets
and bowls for a living. Looking unkempt, he
claimed to be 45 years old but looked every inch
in his late 50s. The father of four said he is
separated from his wife. “My wife ran away with
the children and I have been living alone,” he
told Saturday Sun at the Bauchi police command
headquarters where he is being kept with the
three other suspects. The others are Sabo Rabo
 who is a 40- year-old native of Doukabuga
village in Toro council area while Mohammed
Sani is 30.
In his open confession, Bitrus said:
“I am here because I committed a crime. We
raped her and later removed her eyes. We were
three. We did it at a spot called Kuzari. She
asked us to give her some money and sleep
with her. We went to a nearby bush and had
sex with her. It was only me and Sabo that did
it. Mohammed Sani did not have sex with her
but he was the one that brought the idea that
we should remove her eyes”
Bitrus said that after the two of them raped the
woman, they planned to run away but Rabo
warned that if they did, he would disclose
what they did. “We had no choice but to
comply. We used a knife to remove her eyes.”
Mohammed Sani said it was temptation from
the devil that pushed him into raping the
woman and removing her eyes, adding: “Sabo
told us that he had someone that would buy
the eye.”
But Mohammed Sani denied the accusation. He
said:
“I did not ask them to remove her eyes. It was
Japanese (Bitrus) who is our senior that said
he discussed with one native doctor that if he
removed the woman’s eyes, the native doctor
will give us N1 million. They asked me being
the strongest to hold the woman. That is after
Sabo Bullet had slept with her. I held her
down and Japanese (Bitrus) removed her left
eye.”
Usman Sabo, 35, is the native doctor that Sabo
said asked Bitrus to bring the eyes for a N1
million compensation. Sabo who sells herbs and
married with two children told Saturday Sun:
“I was sitting on my own when Bitrus came
with the eye. He told me he had a woman’s eye
but I didn’t see it. He asked me if I could
prepare for him charms that will make him to
disappear. I told him I am only a herbs seller.
I don’t prepare charm to make people vanish
at will. I have never done it. I only treat people
who are sick whenever my services are
required. When I told Bitrus that, he left in
anger and later the matter came that I gave
him N1million. Did I look like a millionaire?
The eye is with Bitrus but he kept denying it.”
While denying being in possession of the
victim’s eyes, Bitrus said the eyes are with
Mohammed Sani.
“The eye is not with me. It is with Sani. He
promised to give us N1 million. I did not get a
single kobo”, he insisted.