by Adeola Balogun

Justice might finally be served in the case of two women in Lagos who were cruelly brutalized in a video which went viral on the internet.

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The Lagos House of Assembly yesterday promised a reward of N1.25 million for whomever could facilitate the arrest of the perpetrators of the crime.

The two women were sodomized and brutalized and one of them had ground pepper shoved up her private part, their humiliation made even worse  by the recording of the incident.

Leadership reports:

Chairman of the five-man ad hoc committee investigating the matter, Mr. Ajibayo Adeyeye disclosed this at a stakeholders’ meeting on the issue, at the Lateef Jakande Auditorium, Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja.

According to Adeyeye: “Anybody that gives information that leads to the arrest of the perpetrators of the heinous act shall be given N1 million. And I will add the sum of 250,000 from my private account to increase the sum to N1.25million.”

During the deliberation, the video clip of the incident which ran for about eight minutes was played, showing how the two women were tortured by the perpetrators. The video clip moved the participants at the meeting to tears.

The President of Women Arise Initiative, Dr. Joe Odumakin, who had previously led a protest to the House on the matter, explained that she saw the video for the first time on December 7, 2013.

Odumakin said that the greatest gift anyone could give the women was to get justice for them.