withheld) was caught today making love to a
hen. The fowl reportedly died during the act.
The taboo was said to have been committed
by the apprentice at about 11.20 p.m. at
Continental area of Akure metropolis.
The suspect, Vanguard learnt, had committed
same taboo with a goat in his home town,
Afo in Ose council area of the state.
He was said to have been ex-communicated
from his home town because of the offence
which made him to move in with his brother
in Akure.
Speaking with newsmen, the owner of fowl,
Mrs Stella Akintola, who resides in the same
building confirmed that the man actually
made love to her chicken.
According to her, she went to bed early but
was woken up by the noise coming from the
chickens at the back of her room, an
indication that someone was disturbing their
peace.
The discovery
Akintola said she went outside only to find
that the back door was still opened.
According to her, she became curious and “I
shouted to know who was still at the
backyard only for him to appear from the
corner of the house, saying he went to the
toilet because he had a running stomach.”
Akintola said she was not convinced
especially as she noticed that the noise from
the chickens’ pen stopped abruptly.
She said she went to where the chickens were
but nothing was found. “It was when I visited
the toilet that I found one of the them stone
dead with its feathers littering the floor,” she
said.
Still unaware that the suspect was the cause
of the death of the bird, Akintola said she
raised an alarm only for him to confess that
he was responsible for the death of the fowl.
Akintola said the suspect confessed and
begged her for forgiveness, saying he would
pay any amount for the dead fowl.
She said she decided not to report the matter
to the police because she could not stand the
rigour she would be subjected to by the
police over a “minor offence.”
Report had it that there were evidence that
the man actually had sex with the hen when
it was examined by the owner and others
living in the building.
A spirit directed me to do it —Suspect
In an interview with newsmen, the suspect,
who declined to speak initially, however, said
a spirit directed him to do what he did.
He said: “I was already sleeping when a spirit
just came upon me and directed me to go to
the back of the building. I did not know what
I was doing again until when I discovered that
I had slept with the hen.”
Contacted, the police image maker, Wole
Ogodo, said since the matter was not
reported to the police, he could not comment
on it.
Ogodo noted that “it is what members of the
public bring to our notice that we investigate.
This is a strange occurrence if what you are
telling me is the truth.”
