The woes of Yar'Adua's newly nominated ambassador to the United States, Prof. Tunde Adeniran, have been compounded by rape charges filed against his son, Adedamola Adeniran.
Adedamola, alongside three young men from Baltimore County in Maryland, is now charged with gang-raping three women in the city of Baltimore, according to ABC-2 News, a local Baltimore television station. Saharareporters spoke by phone with Prof. Adeniran in Nigeria. He confirmed that Adedamola is his son but feigned ignorance of the rape charges.
Maryland police say on July 27th, two women accepted a ride from two men near North Calvert and West Fayette streets in Downtown Baltimore. But instead of driving them home, police say the men got on I-95 south, threatened the women with a knife, and drove them to the parking lot of Seton Keough High School in Southwest Baltimore. There, police say the women were both raped by the two men and a third man who arrived later.
Three men are charged in the case -- 19-year-old Adedamola Adeniran of Halethorpe, along with 19-year-old Anthony Edoror and 20-year-old Opeyemi Adigun, who both live near Woodlawn.
On August 18, an identical attack took place, but the victim was able to identify the licence plate of the car to the police, thereby leading the police to one of the suspects. He identified the other two men.
Apart from the rape charges against his son, Nigeria's ambassador-in-waiting, who was appointed over five months ago, faces potential hurdles to his clearance to assume his exalted position in Washington DC. State Department officials told Saharareporters that Professor Adeniran has two wives in the US bearing his name, which effectively makes him a polygamist. They said it is a grey area that needed to be sorted out before he can be finally cleared.
In addition to rape, Adedamola and the other two men also face charges that include false imprisonment and conspiracy to commit rape. If convicted, they could spend the rest of their lives in prison.
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