A 14-year old Primary 5 pupil who lived
alone with her father at Bishop Oluwole Street, Victoria Island, Lagos,
southwest Nigeria, has told the police at the Bar Beach Division, Victoria
Island Lagos, that her father, Ikoro Nwafor John, 57, raped her four times
between March and May 2013 after giving her N200 to go to school every day.
The police at the Bar Beach Division
arrested John and arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, on a
one count charge of allegedly forcefully having unlawful and indecent carnal knowledge
of a minor without her consent.
The accused pleaded not guilty to the
charges, but the police prosecutor, Supol E.C. Ekuma opposed his oral bail on
the ground that the offence the accused committed is not an ordinary one.
The presiding magistrate ordered the
accused remanded in prison custody till 5 June, 2013 when his written bail
application may be considered.
Narrating her ordeal in the hand of her
father to the police in her statement, the little girl allegedly said:
“after asking my mother that she should reunite me with my father, she brought
me to my father in Lagos, from her sister’s place in the eastern part of
Nigeria where she dropped me after she separated from my father few years ago.
“I was happy to be reunited with my
father. My father enrolled me in a primary school in Victoria Island,
Lagos, and he was giving me N200 every day to go to school and each time I came
back he would advise me not to allow men to deceive me and ruin my feature.
“But I was surprised my father later
started telling me that since my mother has divorced him, I would replace her
as his wife and bear him a child. I thought he was joking until one night he
came into my room to give me N200 to go to school the following day and
suddenly, he pounced on me, removed my pant and forcefully inserted his organ
inside my private part. As I was screaming he started begging me not to
shout because neigbhours would hear.
“He did the same thing three more times to
me, with a promise to buy me a car and take me to London for site seeing, but
all to no avail.”
She added that “when I told my mother when
she came to check me how my father was abusing me sexually, she said that was
not her business.
“When my father gave me another N200 to
have sex with me, I told him he was a stupid father and he started beating me.
“I reported the matter to my head teacher
who informed the police and he was arrested. I am begging the government to
punish my father for defiling me.”
In his defence, John allegedly denied the
allegation, saying his daughter lied against him to enable her continue to
follow her boyfriend.
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