{"id":7171,"date":"2022-04-18T12:10:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T12:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=7171"},"modified":"2022-04-18T12:10:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T12:10:17","slug":"nigerian-tourist-narrates-robbery-attempted-rape-at-warere-beach-hotel-zanzibar-in-tanzanian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=7171","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Tourist Narrates Robbery, Attempted Rape At Warere Beach Hotel, Zanzibar In Tanzanian"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Zanzibar Commission for Tourism, Tanzania, has commenced investigation into allegations of robbery and attempted rape made by a Nigerian tourist, Zainab Oladehinde.<\/span><\/p>\n

This was after Nigerians expressed outrage at the incident, which trended on Twitter and affected the reviews of the Warere Beach Hotel, Nungwi, Zanzibar, where the event occured.<\/span><\/p>\n

Oladehinde had, in a series of tweets on Saturday, said she boarded a plane from Lagos to Tanzania and proceeded to lodge in the hotel to celebrate her 23rd birthday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The victim said she was to be lodged in the hotel for six days, but a \u201ctraumatic experience\u201d in the facility made her undergo therapy for a year.<\/span><\/p>\n

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She stated, \u201cAround 12am, a few friends and family called to wish me a happy birthday and then I went back to my room to sleep. A few hours into my sleep, I started to feel a strange hand touching my breasts.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNow, this was me sleeping naked on my bed in my hotel room with my doors locked. So, this was definitely a dream. I told myself and went back to sleep. Some few minutes afterwards, I started to feel my hands stroking someone\u2019s pen*s.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAt this moment, I opened my eyes to confirm if it was actually a dream or I was in real danger. Lo and behold, it wasn\u2019t a dream. There was a naked man lying on my bed and touching me at 2am in my hotel room!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe started calling me baby and then I became scared because the room was dark as I had switched off the lights before I went to bed. Now, I was extremely scared.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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In that moment, Oladehinde said she asked for the man\u2019s identity, adding that he ignored and gagged her mouth to prevent her from calling for help.<\/span><\/p>\n

She said dreadful thoughts of being raped and killed, among others, occupied her mind, as she never knew how the man entered her room, which was locked.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0According to her, the yet-to-be-identified man was about to rape her when she shouted that she had HIV, which made him to stop.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I continued begging and telling him I\u2019d allow him have sex with me but he\u2019d need to get a condom so as not to get HIV. I kept on saying HIV whilst crying profusely at this point. As I struggled to not let him strangle me, he left the room and told me he\u2019d be back with a condom.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cImmediately he left, I switched on the light, tried to call the hotel reception but there was no intercom or phone lines to reach the hotel reception. I couldn\u2019t stay back in the room and wait for the rapist to come back.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u201cI decided it was very unsafe for me to remain in the room. If I\u2019d die, I\u2019d rather die trying to escape rather than let the man come back to attack me a second time. I quickly put some clothes on and left my room barefooted so as not to make noise when I get out.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOn getting outside the room, I wanted to make my way to the reception, but then I saw two security men standing outside by the pool side having a conversation. I wanted to meet them to tell them I had just been attacked by a stranger in my room.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut I thought to myself, what if this was the person who actually attacked me? Then I became extremely scared because I\u2019d have to find a way to get to the reception without those men seeing me,\u201d she added.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Oladehinde said she crawled to avoid being noticed and when she got to the rooms at the reception, she knocked on the doors but no one answered.<\/span><\/p>\n

She said, \u201cI was crying profusely at this point because I thought I wouldn\u2019t survive this night.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAlmost immediately, I remembered the Russian couple I had spent some time with the day before and I could go to their room to seek refuge. I started crawling on my chest till I got to their room.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFortunately for me, the room was opened and I ran inside. They woke up almost immediately and I told the guy, Alex, how I was strangled and almost got raped in my room.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe advised that I stay in his room till we sort out the issue by daybreak. I called my friend to tell him I was in another room where I felt safe and he told me he had called the hotel owner. This was around 4am in the morning.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Around 6am, the victim said she left Alex\u2019s room and called her taxi driver, one Suley, to convey her to the nearest police station.<\/span><\/p>\n

While awaiting the driver\u2019s arrival, Oladehinde noted that she realised her phone battery would soon go flat when she summoned the courage to go into her room to pick up her charger.<\/span><\/p>\n

Upon entering the room, she, however, discovered that she had been robbed of $1,100, adding that it took two hours before the hotel manager, one Mussa, attended to her.<\/span><\/p>\n

She said, \u201cMussa claimed to have received a phone call around 4am by the hotel\u2019s owner to check for me in my room after my friend called them. He said he didn\u2019t find me in the room, so he went back to bed.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI told Mussa to call out all the security personnel that were on duty the night before so we\u2019d get the hang of who the culprit was. They all came out. I couldn\u2019t recognize any of them, but I could smell the man that was in my room that midnight.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe taxi driver arrived and we all left for the police station. When we got to the police station, I was asked to write my statement, which I did. The policemen advised I go to the hospital to do a check-up if I was raped or not.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey were all speaking Swahili and were asking me questions instead of interrogating the suspects. When I decided to take a picture of the police station and the statement I had written, the policemen started threatening me to delete the pictures.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t delete my pictures and videos. Instead, I took more because this was the only weapon I had against them. I started to Google Nigerian embassies in Tanzania. I called all of them, but no one answered me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Oladehinde said when the nurse at a hospital she visited confirmed that there was no penetration, the policemen said they had no reason to press charges on sexual assault, adding that the only issue was the stolen money.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe policemen at the Nungwi police station in Zanzibar kept on bullying and harassing me. They told me to leave the police station that I wasn\u2019t raped. I was so frustrated, sad and scared. How could the police do this to me? How could the hotel do this to me? The owner and manager said I lied about my experience,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a short video clip posted alongside the tweets, Alex was heard confirming that Oladehinde came to seek solace in his room on April 16, 2021, when the incident happened.<\/span><\/p>\n

A statement by the Executive Secretary, Zanzibar Commission for Tourism, Hafsa Mbamba, condemned the incident, saying an investigation had commenced.<\/span><\/p>\n

The statement read in part, \u201cThe Zanzibar Commission for Tourism is shocked and disappointed to learn of this incident and take these allegations very seriously. An immediate investigation has commenced and we will report on its findings. We condemn any harm or threat to our visitors to the peaceful islands of Zanzibar.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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