“The first time the incident happened, I was sleeping with my boyfriend. My uncle entered my room; sent my boyfriend out and raped me. The second time, I was sleeping in my room with my younger sister. He opened the gate, covered my mouth and slept with me. Then, my mum was admitted in a hospital because she was ill.” She claimed that the last time he forcefully slept with her was early last year before she discovered that she was expecting a baby.
“Last
June, I realised I had missed my period for the previous month but I
didn’t know what caused it. It was after my mum took me to the hospital
we were told I was three-month pregnant. I don’t know who is
responsible; if it is my boyfriend or my uncle. I
intend to sit for my Junior School Certificate Examination (JSCE) next
month. Since my father died last year, my uncle took everything he gave
us. My mum was left with nothing to cater for the six of us,” she added.
Her
mother, Mrs Yinka Kolajolu, said her daughter never told her what her
uncle was doing to her, adding that she got to know after her husband’s
death. Mrs Kolajolu said
when her daughter told her what she had been going through, she
discharged herself and moved out of the house with her children.
“It
was when we moved to our new place I realised that my daughter hasn’t
seen her period and when I asked her, she said it seized that she didn’t
know. Although when we moved to the neighbourhood she has been mingling
with some boys so I thought one of them was responsible for the
pregnancy. It was later she told me how my husband’s brother started
sleeping with her. She said he threatened to injure her if she told
anyone. When I told him she
is pregnant, he asked who was responsible and I said I didn’t know. He
said he was okay with whatever I did. The reason I left my husband’s
house was because his brother said he was going to kill me just the way
he killed my husband. When I didn’t know what to do, I went to meet his
wife who also told me her husband tried to rape their first daughter. We
reported the matter to a mediation centre but he didn’t show up. We
were now referred to Lagos State Domestic Violence and Sexual Response
Team (DVSR). She is
my step daughter she has been with me since she was one-year-old after
her mother’s death. I am her mother. We are scared of my husband’s
brother. I pray our matter is handled well because we don’t want to
suffer.”
The
accused’s wife, Ndidi, said she wasn’t surprised to hear what her
husband did because he almost raped their first child last November. She
said she and their five children were asleep when he sneaked in,
adding:”He came around 3am, removed our 14-year-old daughter’s underwear
and touched her breast. It was when my daughter screamed I woke up. We
usually don’t put off our light to sleep but at that moment, it was off.
We all ran to the sitting room to see who came in. As our last child
bent, she saw legs behind the curtain. When we removed the curtain, I
saw my naked husband standing. My
daughter cried to the extent of raining curses on her father. When I
told him I was going to report to the police station, he said it won’t
take him five minutes to kill me. Last December, he said myself and the
children shouldn’t visit him again that he has another woman who has
given him a son. Since last December, I am just seeing my husband today
(yesterday). Even after he was summoned at the mediation centre, he
didn’t respond. “
Kolajolu,
a businessman, who has been detained at the Festac Police Station,
denied raping the girl, adding that he does not know anything about the
pregnancy.
“Even
if my wife and I are at loggerheads, this isn’t the right way to solve
it. I have never entered their room. Why will I sleep with my niece or
my own daughter? Is it not shameful,” he said
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