I did it to
appease the gods - Father
The Human Right department of
Ilemba Hausa Police Division, in Ojo area of Lagos has arrested a 49- year-old
man who allegedly had been having carnal knowledge of his teenaged daughter for
five years.
It was discovered during
investigation that his daughter Janet(not real name)got pregnant in the
process twice, only for her father to allegedly abort the pregnancy with the
aid of a herbalist.
Sitting at a corner in the
Human Rights Office, 17-year-old Janet could not raise her head to face
her father, Wale Akinusi, who was also there. When approached, she simply
stated that at last, she had been freed from the psychological trauma
associated with her father’s sacrilegious act.
Crime Alert gathered that
Janet’s tale of woe started after her mother abandoned her barely when she
was two years old for her paternal grandmother.
It was gathered that her
mother who was then a Junior Secondary 3 student, was impregnated by Wale who
was 32 years old. Initially, he reportedly denied paternity of the
pregnancy but later opted for an abortion on the ground that he could not
afford to father a child then because he was only an apprentice.
But his mother came to the
rescue as she offered to take care of the baby who turned out to be
Janet.
But when she was 12, her
father, reportedly took her from her grandmother, with a promise to give her a
better education.
Rather than live up to his
promise, her father, allegedly use her to satisfy his sexual urge, a
practice that went on until he was arrested.
Narrating how it all started,
Janet in her sitting position with her head bowed all through, said: “When I
was leaving my grandmother’s house, I was happy because my father said I
would be attending a better school. But I waited for months without being
enrolled in any school.
“One night, then, I was 12,my
dad called me into his room and told me he took an oat with
my mother to be the first man to have sex with me. He said it had a spiritual
connotation and that it was to enable him assume his proper financial state.
“Then, I was too young to
understand what he meant. He had carnal knowledge of me that night. At a point,
he asked if it was painful. All I did was to watch him have his way, still
unable to understand what he was doing.”
First pregnancy aborted by a
herbalist
“It continued until I was 14
years. Then, I started having a funny feeling. I told him I was sick and when
we conducted a pregnancy test, it was positive. Next day, he told me we
were going somewhere and we ended up in the home of a herbalist in Ikorodu, who
gave me some concoction. I drank some in his apartment and took the rest
home. After two days, my menstruation started and my father assured
me all was well.
He only gave me a week’s break
before he continued all over again. Two years later, when I was 16 years, I got
sick again. When I informed daddy, we went for another pregnancy test
which confirmed my fear; I was pregnant again!
When he returned next day from
his shop, he told me there was no need to go to the herbalist. Rather he gave
me two sachets of Alabukun and squeezed some lime juice into a cup, asking me
to take it in a gulp. It did the magic and the menstrual flow started few
days later.”
“After the second abortion, I
became tired of the whole thing. I started being afraid every night. At
times, I would put tissue paper under my panties , pretending I was
witnessing my monthly flow. After a while, he got the trick, for he
started taking note of the date.
Challenges father “I summoned courage and reported
the sacrilegious act to our neighbors. But none of them could
confront him. Rather they told me they could not interfere into our family
affair” , she stated, with her head still bent.
Apparently discouraged by the
cold reaction from the neighbors, Janet decided to take the bull by the horn.
Looking straight into her father’s eyes for the very first time since the
sacrilegious act started, she told her father she was tired of the whole thing.
To make do her threat, she reportedly rushed to the kitchen, grabbed a knife
and threatened to stab him if he attempted to force her.
“This happened on November 28,
2012. My father had come home from his shop . And at about 6pm, he called me
inside to warm his bed. But when he saw the knife, he retraced his steps.
I quickly ran inside my room , with the knife in my hand and packed my things
out of the house, to stay with a friend whose family welcomed me after I
narrated all that has been going on in the past five years.”
“After spending three weeks
with them, I received a text message from my father, asking me to come home, or
I would die. When I showed the text message to the family I was putting up
with, they suggested I reported the case to the police. I hesitated at first
because I was scared he would be jailed.
“But I changed my mind when
the text message threat continued”, she said.
I did that to appease the gods
– father
When approached, it was
obvious that 49-year-old Wale Akinusi, a fashion designer who hails from
Ondo central in Ondo state was oblivious of the legal implication of the
offense, as he showed no sign of remorse.
He bluntly told this reporter
that what he did was not new under the sun, adding that this would not be the
first time such story would be published on the pages of newspapers.
“It is not a new thing that a
man has sex with his daughter and even if I am jailed at the end, I will
surely come out after serving my jail term. But I promise that my
daughter will join me” he threatened, dismissing the issue with a wave of
the hand.
Continuing, he said: “I went
back to claim my child so as to fulfill the oat made between her mother
and I.
That was why I took her to the herbalist when she was
pregnant, so as to appease the gods of her mother’s land. You will not understand.
“You see, when her mother was
six months pregnant, we made love. She later told me that it was a taboo
for a man to sleep with a pregnant woman in her place. She said the only
remedy was for the man to be the first person to sleep with the child.
“I initially did not want to
do it. But along the line, I discovered that things were not going on well with
me financially. And when I made inquiry, I was made to understand that I had to
appease the god’s of her mother’s land, so as to attain my rightful place in destiny.”
Asked why he continued after
the first time, he kept mute. Also asked why he did not satisfy his sexual urge
on his wife who has had four children for him, he explained that they were
leaving apart.
“My wife lives in Ketu
with the children while I live in Ojo. I had to live apart because I do not
want my wife and children to suffer the consequences of my sin. Also I
did not want my wife to know I was sleeping with my own daughter”, he said.
Meanwhile, effort according to
sources at the Human Rights department, was on to arrest the herbalist who
allegedly gave Janet the concoction that aborted her first
pregnancy,while her father would be charged to court.
Vanguard Newspaper!!!
Wtf?
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