An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has discharged and acquitted a 26-year-old teacher, Akorede Quadri, who was accused of raping his colleague.
Justice Abiola Soladoye in her judgement on Thursday discredited the claim by Damilola Odekunle that she was raped by Mr Quadri.
The court, however, upheld Quadri’s claim that they were “friends with benefits.”
The judge said that the prosecution did not prove its case beyond reasonable doubt, adding that it failed to provide to the court, medical evidence that the complainant was raped.
She said the defendant established that there was regular sexual intercourse between him and the complainant, even after she reported the controversial sex of September 2017 to the police.
“This is a case of a friendship that went sour as far as this court is concerned,” Soladoye said.
Two witnesses, the complainant and a police officer, Yemi Amao; had testified on behalf of the prosecution, while Quadri testified alone in his defence.
Amao said that the complainant reported the rape allegedly committed in September 2017 to the police in November 2017.
She told the court that Quadri raped the complainant after he went to her apartment in Ikotun, Lagos, to pick up a bag he kept in her possession.
The complainant, now 30-year-old, said she was 27 years old at the time of the alleged rape.
