The
father of eleven who was arrested on April 30 resides in Kalabari Beach, Oguta
Local Government Area, Imo State escaped lynyching by angry youths who got wind
of his abominable act of sleeping with his daughter after she finally summoned
courage to reveal the matter to a neighbor.
Narrating her ordeal, the 5-month-old pregnant girl who is
the man’s first daughter from his second late wife and a JSS 3 student of St.
Michael Secondary School Obodo Oguta said:
“I have been living in bondage. My father started having sex
with me after his two wives died. He would always beat me before having sex
with me. I told him to remarry but he refused. Every night he would come and
rape me. Any day I refused to have sex with my father, he would beat me and
then rape me. He always came when the other children were asleep. It was the
fear of my father’s beating that made me not to tell anybody.
But one day, I decided to confess to my neighbour. It was
the neighbour who discovered that I was five months pregnant. Immediately the
news spread, youths in the community gathered to kill my father, but policemen
rescued him.”
Samuel Uba, who claims to be an elder in a Pentecostal
church blamed it on the devil while he also appealed to his community for
forgivenes said:
“I had two wives. My first wife died in 2011 while the
second died in 2012. I have nine children, two girls and seven boys. When my
second wife was on admission in the hospital, I used to have sex with her right
in the hospital. But when she died I started sleeping with my daughter when the
other children were asleep. I began having sex with my daughter because I
didn’t want to be sleeping around with other women.”
Meanwhile Pastor Donatus Olisa, General Overseer of
Christian Pentecostal Church, where the suspect and his daughter worship said
how he learnt about the shocking discovery.
He said: “The father of the girl, Samuel and his daughter attend
my church every Sunday. Some people told me that Papa Samuel was sleeping with
his daughter; they said the pregnancy that resulted from it had reached five
months. I was deeply shocked. The following morning I went to the house of Papa
Samuel and he confessed that he impregnated the daughter. He acknowledged
raping her often.”
The Imo State Commissioner of Police, Mr Abdulmajid Ali who
confirmedthe incident said he would be charged to court to answer appropriate
charges for rape and impregnating a legal minor.
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