Her daughter was aware that she was going to the roadside to buy air time for her
mobile phone. The time was 8 pm when she left her flat. She denied the suggestion that
the story that the accused raped PW1 was trumped up and the contents of the medical
reports were narrated to the doctor by her.
At the close of the case for the prosecution the accused was found to have a case to
answer. Barrister Lohtabu Evans, Counsel for the accused, informed the court that the
accused would give evidence on oath and had two witnesses to call to testify on his behalf
the accused told the court. On 21/08/16 he left his house at about 7 am for the Mountain
Hotel to visit a friend who was employed by a company renovating the hotel. While at
the Mountain hotel he had a phone call from a fellow Chadian national who was also a
tenant in the same building where he lived. The Chadian woman then told her that the
police were looking for him because his neighbour’s child had been raped and she was
bleeding profusely. On hearing of the incident he returned to the compound where he was
living. He went to one of his neighbours to find out what had happened. But before this
neighbours could talk to him, other neighbours gathered around him and informed him
that PW1 had been raped and she had informed them that he was responsible. The
neighbours who informed him that PW1 had accused him as the perpetrator of the offence
were PW2, the mother of PW1, and her roommate.
Thereafter the group of neighbours continued conversing in the English Language
and he could not understand what they were saying. He told PW2 that he did not rape
PW1. PW2’s roommate showed him the 1st PW’s medical report and asked him to give
them the sum of 50.000 FCFA which they had spent to treat PW1. One of the onlookers
took him aside and informed him that PW2 was not serious in making a complaint against
him; she was interested in an amicable settlement. This officious onlooker then asked him
to comply with the demands made by PW2 and her friends by admitting that he raped
PW1 and paying up the amount requested by them. The onlooker who suggested that he
should settle the matter amicably then left him and went to the spot where PW2 was and
held a classroom with her. After the discussion PW2 then approached him. She questioned
him whether there had been no incident between him and PW1. When he narrated an
incident when PW1 asked him to give her money and thereafter followed him to the toilet
where he had gone to urinate. At the toilet PW1 continued begging him for money as he
was standing at the door of the toilet and urinating. When PW1 stretched her hand from
behind and touched the front part of his trousers he cautioned her. PW1 then told him he
would make a complaint to PW2 against him. On hearing this story most of the onlookers
concluded that he raped PW1. PW2 and her roommates then warned him that if he did not
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