Weekly featured contest || week 12/episode 3|| THE VINDICATION OF EDDY , HIS ERRORS AND THE LESSONS

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Trust the weekend is going well and that we are taking much rest from all work all through the week. It's very important to give some peace to our bodies by resting. The body needs a constant rejuvenation. Anyways, that's just my way of saying, hellooo!!!!

Would Eddy be ever freed from the police custody? Did he actually commit the offence he was charged for? Are there chances of him not going to the prison straight from the court? What if the judge sentence him to a life imprisonment? What would become of his education?

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These were few of many of the questions running through the mind of Hacky, the closest friend of Eddy who has been arrested for a crime he claimed not to have committed or knew nothing about. Eddy had allegedly been accused to have raped a 200 level student of medicine in one of the topmost university in my country.

The first question to ask is: Is there any relationship or close relationship between Eddy and the said raped student, Franca? The answer should really be a YES. Eddy would not have been accused if there wasn't any relationship between them, since he wasn't found raping her. He was only the closest suspect.

Eddy is just a 400 level student of engineering and has a comely appearance to be desired by everyone especially the female gender. He's very brilliant but got this flaws- he is a damn womanizer. This was one of the reasons he became the closest suspect of the rape case of Franca. Earlier before the case ensued, he had had a reason to woo Franca after one of her Physiology class which held close to the faculty of engineering. She gave him a NO as her answer but Eddy kept on pressing to get her. After a long consistent consistency, Franca decided she was going to offer him a friendship hand. Eddy accepted to be a friend to her. He had thought in his mind that, probably one day before his final year, she would give him a yes if he continues to pressure her.
This friendship grew ablaze and everyone started noticing their moves. But despite that, they had agreed that nothing was going to come up as a relationship between them. They were just been platonic. Since friends could go the long way for themselves, on many occasions, Franca would offer Eddy foods, money and some beautiful items since she found him interesting around her. On other occasions, she dares to stay late in his place and he also in her apartment. The whole story goes on that way.

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Eddy on the other hand had a few friends who sometimes appears like hooligans in dressing, speech and actions and really, that was who they were. Eddy took them as friends because some of them were equally brilliant like him and they were all in the same department and faculty, four in number they were- Trey, Keyis, Neon and Metall. Someone will ask, what about Hacky? Hacky is a student in the faculty of Arts, studying to become a lawyer. He had been Eddy's closest friend from home, they came from the same environment and had attended the same high school.

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It appears that Eddy had about five friend's house in all, six actually with Franca having been recruited in his 400 level. None of the guys had no hint about Eddy and Franca. They are all witnesses to their friendship.

One day, Eddy and his engineering friends were having a casual discussion and he had to make a statement of him planning to force Franca to bed if after his final examination she refuse him a relationship. Well he was just been casual about it. He didn't actually mean it since that was their mode of communication. As a matter of fact, such stupid discussions was their normal gist aside studies. They are all groups of guys who loved flirting around ladies. Unknowingly for Eddy, Metall had been eyeing Franca because she was so beautiful and he had discussed this with the other three guys aside Eddy. In his discussion with him, he had told them he wanted just to have Franca. That was all he needed from her and nothing more. The loosed words of Eddy would then give him a hint of how to go about it.

One day, Eddy traveled home to celebrate his mother's birthday, this was not known to Franca who out of her friendship mind decided to branch Eddy's apartment while coming from the reading room. Since it was dark, she had only a little torch light and had carried it along. Eddy's engineering friends were in his house that very night and immediately they saw Franca coming afar from the window, the other guys told Metall that Franca was coming and that this would be an opportunity for him to fulfill his desire since their friend, Eddy had gone out.

Here comes Franca and knocked at the door. Trey was the person who opened the door for her to come in while he exchanged pleasantry with her. She entered and asked about Eddy and was succinctly told that he was in. The free and close friend that she was, entered straight into Eddy's room not knowing that Metall had hid himself there and planned how to switch off all power supply. This was how Franca was raped. In fact, the other guys- Trey, Kayis and Neon helped Metall to achieve his aim. They helped to hold Franca down to the floor and had planned to whisper in the process a statement to implicate Eddy. The statement was - Eddy take it easy with Franca. This they did and Franca heard that while she was still conscious. The act was strange to Franca seeing she had never been down with a man in her life. After a long while, she went into a partial coma. The guys ran away when they saw that she had stopped whispering and breathing well.

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Someone during the course was passing by the window and had heard the whisper of the guys saying, Eddy take it easy with Franca. While he was returning via the same route, he only had a sobering woman, crying and only trying to ask someone for help. Franca had gained a little consciousness and needed to be helped. This young man was the one who helped her and then reported the case to the police. The police immediately started out in search of Eddy. His room had been left opened with no one and so there was an assumption that he had ran away. Then the police left a message with the other tenants to get them informed when Eddy comes back home.

The very next day, Eddy came back and found his room opened without been locked. Not long after, while trying to arrange his room, the police came in to get him arrested.

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He got to the police station and found out that he was accused of a rape case. By this time, Franca had been admitted to the hospital and was been treated. Her parents had vowed to send the culprit to jail without mercy. Then he was remanded. The young man who heard the Statement of his friends during the rape had testified against him with such statement and this he would not be able to defend. He tried telling the police he was not even around that same day, but there wasn't any evidence. His only sure evidence would have been Franca but he didn't tell her he was going to celebrate his mother's birthday and would be coming back the next day.

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Since he could be allowed to speak, he asked that he be allowed to speak with his friend, Hacky who was the only person he told he was traveling home and was granted the opportunity. Hacky came down to the police to help tell them that Eddy had gone out of town when this happened but couldn't really prove it since there wasn't any evidence of a travel pass or bus ticket. Hacky then requested to speak with Eddy's parent to interrogate them on whether he was home or not.

The parent's response gave a seeming hope of freedom to Eddy but had to be proven. By this time, Eddy had spent about two weeks in remand. Then the parents had to come with the mother's declaration of age since she had no birth certificate and pictures of her recent birthday that took place when Franca's rape case happened. The pictures included Eddy in a joyful merriment. This was a seeming hope of freedom, but what about this sound of - Eddy , take it easy with Franca? How can that be proven, knowing fully well that Franca heard it herself? To solve this, Eddy was asked who he gave his apartment's key to, then he mentioned his four engineering friends and straight away, the police went out for them.

From the moment of this incident, they hadn't been found any where and Franca had testified that one of them was the one who opened the door for her. Since technology had increased, they were tracked and found out and were all taken to be interrogated in order to find out the truth.

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While been interrogated, they reminded Eddy of his loosed statement of wanting to rape Franca and said that he didn't travel that day. This they said because his key was shared among them. But one of them who had his conscience pricked raised his hand to make a confession and narrated how they used Eddy's loosed statement of wanting to rape Franca in later time to work against him and work for Metall, an opportunity they finally had when Eddy was not around. He had told them he was only going to have a nice time somewhere and not that he was going to celebrate his mum's birthday.

This was how the entire dark page of Franca's rape case was lightened and how Eddy was freed from the consequence of having to suffer for something he knew nothing about because of the influence of bad friends and his inability to tame his tongue.

Then, Metall and the other three folks were then arrested in place of Eddy and he was released to go home and continue his normal school work.

Well, the emotion of the young lady had been distorted. There is a possibility of been stigmatized by her peer and a possibility of having an inferiority complex. What about an health challenge she might have received due to this case?

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Though, Eddy was freed, but the memory of been raped may never leave the heart of young and beautiful Franca. What if she hears of Eddy's loosed plan of raping her in later time, would she believe he could say such despite their closeness?

Nevertheless, Eddy would have gone to prison and may have rotten there if not for the solutions he had around. Well, he's happy the crime case was solved.

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