21st December, 2011
A 51-year-old okada rider has been sent to Kirikiri prison for sleeping with his two daughters. The suspect, Collins O, was arrested by the police at Area ˜G Command, Ogba, following a complaint lodged by an NGO based in Ogba, Lagos, southwest Nigeria.
According to his first daughter, an 18-year-old school leaver, her father started sleeping with her at the age of 12 and when she told her mother she was warned not to tell anyone as, according to her mother, such a scandal will bring shame to the family.
Collins O was said to have extended his lust to his second daughter who is now 15 years and began sleeping with the two girls. The eldest daughter who could no longer bear the ordeal told her friend who reported the matter to an Ogba-based Non-governmental Organisation, NGO.
Officials of the NGO, P.M. NEWS gathered, reported the matter to the police and the man was arrested.
According to the first daughter: He has been sleeping with me since I was 12 years old and when I reported him to my mother, she warned me not to tell anybody because it will bring shame to our family. Now I am 18 and I can’t continue to bear it so I told my friend who informed the NGO about it. He also sleeps with my younger sister”.
The Executive Director of the NGO, a female doctor who told P.M. NEWS that she does not want both her name and that of the organisation mentioned, said the organisation’s primary duty is pioneering, promoting and practising sexual violence response and vowed to see to the end of the case.
The officer-in-charge of the Human Rights Desk at Area G Police Command, Ogba, Supol Yemisi Ali, said the randy father has been charged to family court 6, Ikeja, on a two-count charge.
The suspect pleaded not guilty to the charge and was granted bail by the magistrate, Mrs. A.A. Oshoniyi, in the sum of N200,000 and a surety whose address must be verified. The accused was sent to Kirikiri prison when he could not meet the bail conditions. The matter was adjourned till 13 February, 2012.
Yusuf Muhammed