Popular Fuji Musician, Abass Akande "Obesere" arrested for rape; ...victim claims he inserted a ring in her vagina

The police in Lagos have arrested a popular Fuji musician, Abass Akande, popularly known as Obesere, for allegedly raping a 29-year-old businesswoman, Olanike Olaiya.

Ms. Olanike said the musician raped her in his Okota residence, Lagos. But Obesere is insisting that Ms. Olanike was his lover and that they had sex as consenting adults.

Ms. Olaiya, a National Diploma graduate of business administration from Ibadan Polytechnic, told the police that she knew Obesere through one of her friends, a certain Bola Okoro.


She said Ms. Okoro told her Obesere would assist in her business.

“I deal in office equipment and when I contacted Obesere, he asked me to meet him in his family house at Okota.

“When I met him, I introduced my business to him and he promised to connect me to some of his friends in Dubai who would sell goods to me on credit.

“After the discussion, he started demanding for sex and I refused and when I wanted to leave, he insisted I should sleep over in his house because it was late and he claimed that it was dangerous to go out late in the night in his area.

“I thought he was a responsible man and I decided to sleep over, but at the dead of the night, he came into the room where I slept and pounced on me.

“He raped me and afterwards inserted a ring he wore into my private part and I started bleeding. He hurriedly left me in the room saying he had an appointment to fulfil.

“I could not bear the trauma and the bleeding and I reported the matter to the police.”

The report indicated Obesere was first arrested last Wednesday by operatives from the Isolo Police Division where Ms. Olaiya reported the matter.

He was subsequently released on administrative bail but later re-arrested on Monday, when medical examination conducted on Ms. Olaiya revealed that she was actually raped.

The Divisional Police Officer, Isolo, Adamu Ibrahim, has now ordered the transfer of the matter to State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Panti, Yaba, for further investigation.

Obesere however denied ever raping Ms. Olaiya. He insisted the woman was his lover and that they made love when she visited him.

The musician claimed he asked her to go to a private hospital for treatment when she complained of bleeding, and that he was surprised that she instead went to the police to report that she was raped.