Iyabo Ojo, a Nollywood actress and filmmaker, has narrated how she was raped five times by an armed robber, a neighbour and a ‘non-family member’.
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She spoke on ‘Bare It All With IY’, her YouTube Channel series.
“The other one happened after I got married to my husband and had my kids. Then, we moved to Ikeja. I was raped by one of the armed robbers who came to our house. It is not easy to talk about rape. No matter how much you talk about it, you have to realise that it is painful. But, you are not alone,” she said.
“I was raped by a former neighbour, who happened to be a friend to my first boyfriend. I was almost 18 at the time and had gone to visit my family members in the Obanikoro area of Lagos when he offered to drop me off on my way back to Ikeja where I was then living with my aunt.
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“Along the way, he asked if he could show me his house (as he had also moved out of Obanikoro), and I agreed because I did not envisage that he could hurt me.
“However, on getting to his house, he raped me after several efforts to stop him proved abortive,” she also said.
“I cried my heart out. Then, I pondered about telling my ex-boyfriend. My ex-boyfriend was a bad boy and I would not say I liked all the bad things he did. So, I decided not to tell him because they might kill him or do something terrible to him if I did. I did not want that because I didn’t want blood on my hands.”
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Ojo revealed she was first raped at age 14 while she was living at her aunt’s house. She said a ‘non-family member’ had raped her but she could not speak out because rape was seen as a taboo back then.
She refused to reveal the last experience.
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