21-year-old Akabugu Nkiruka has been hospitalised, after she was allegedly pushed down from the third floor of the multi-storey building in Lagos, following a disagreement with a man she met on the social network, facebook.
Akabugu Nkiruka sustained multiple injuries, including a pelvis fracture, and is undergoing surgery at the General Hospital, Marina, Lagos.
Nkiruka, a linguistic student of the University of Lagos, told Reporters on her hospital bed that she met the young man through the social media, barely a week before the Nov. 1 incident.
According to her the 26-year-old man (names withheld) last Wednesday invited her to a night club in Apapa from where they ended up in his family home at 1004 Estate, Victoria Island, Lagos.
She noted that the young man had earlier talked about sex on phone prior to the outing but she told him she was menstruating.
Nkiruka said that on getting to the house, the man tore her dress and tried to rape her.
According to Nkiruka, the man thereafter pushed her down from the third floor of the building because she refused to have sex with him.
When contacted, the mother of the young man, who was at home on the night of the incident, however, said she was not aware of what happened, saying that she slept around 10 p.m., while the disagreement between the couple started much later.
The mother, who pleaded anonymity, disclosed that she paid part of the hospital bill immediately after Nkiruka was admitted, and even tried to transfer her to a private hospital.
“I took her as our own daughter and so, I can do anything that will make her recover quickly,” she added.
She insisted that her preliminary inquiry indicated that Nkiruka was not pushed by her son as alleged, but that she jumped on her own in the ensuing scuffle.
When contacted, CSP Fayoade Adegoke, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Bar Beach, Victoria Island, Lagos, told Reporters that Nkiruka wrote in her statement to the police that she jumped on her own, in order to escape being raped.