Twenty-seven-year-old Adenuga Eniola was recently arrested by men of Ogun State Police Command for allegedly raping a co-worker, identified as Faith Jude, to death and hiding her corpse. He tells TUNJI BOSUN about how he committed the crime

How did you know the lady?

The lady involved was a colleague in the workplace – Faith Jude. She had only been with us for about two weeks but I have been working in the company since July. I met her when she joined but we worked in different shops. I am a mobile money agent and I work in one of the shops being run by our boss, while she worked directly with our boss.

What was the relationship between the two of you?

She was just a co-worker. I told her that I wanted to marry her, but she said she would think about it. She came to my shop the next day to collect some money on behalf of our boss and I asked if she had come to a decision on what our discussion. But she said she was having her periods and that even if she would give me a reply, it wasn’t at that time.

What did it have to do with her decision to marry you?

I don’t know. She said after her periods, she would give me a reply.

So what happened next?

When she told me she was having her periods, I insisted that she was lying. I don’t know what came over me; I just wanted to have her. When she was screaming while I was trying to undress her, I used something – a piece of cloth – to gag her. In the process of having s*x with her, she gave up and I did not know.

After I had s*x with her, I discovered that she was dead. I did not know what else to do than so I covered her body in the shop. I was in panic mode; I didn’t know what to do.

She was only there to collect money for our boss; I was the one that used that opportunity to perpetrate the ungodly act.

I am not married, I am not a womaniser. I don’t know why I got myself involved in this. I did not have any girlfriend; I don’t just know what came over me and made do what I did.

I confirmed that she was having her periods. It was after I raped her that I saw bloodstains on my private parts. And I felt bad about it.

Why did you kill her?

I did not intentionally kill her; I think it was the cloth I used to gag her to prevent her from shouting that suffocated her and caused her death. It was never intentional; all I wanted to do was to sleep with her.

What about the marks of violence on her body?

That happened while she was struggling with me. When I discovered that she was dead, I kept her body in the shop for three days until when my boss’ child came to the shop, said the place was stinking and that I should ensure I cleaned it up on environmental sanitation day. While cleaning the shop, I did not have any other choice but to take her corpse outside. Then I called my boss to tell him that I had seen the corpse of the lady we were looking for.

I lied, hoping that I would not become a suspect, but my boss told me to report the matter at the police station and that he would join me there. I told them the same thing at the station, but in the course of interrogating me, I confessed that I killed Faith.

Were you high? How did you have the guts to rape and kill her?

I was not high. I did not know what came over me; killing her was a mistake. All I wanted to do was to have s*x with her.

Are you not ashamed of yourself for raping someone to death?

I regret my action because I don’t know what came over me, I am not a womaniser. I don’t know why I got myself involved in this

You know it is a crime to rape, so why did you do it?

It was never intentional; it was devil that made me act like that.

How would you feel if you had a daughter and she was raped like you raped the lady? Put yourself in the shoes of one of the parents of the lady you raped and killed.

I don’t have a child yet. I am not married. I don’t even have a girlfriend. I know it is not good at all. If such happened to me, I would not be happy at all. I regret my action.

How has your family reacted to this?

My mother and siblings are in a very bad state because of what happened. They were surprised that I did something like that.

Why did you not sleep with a prostitute?

I don’t like women and I don’t patronise prostitutes or brothels. Raping and killing Faith was just a mistake. I regret my action because I don’t know what came over me and made me do it. I don’t know how I got myself involved in this mess. I want to beg the government to be merciful to me by tempering justice with mercy. I promise not to involve myself in any immoral act again.