I had sex with five dogs, boy, 18, tells police

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.

Vanguard