The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 41-year-old man, Sikiru Odejide for allegedly raping his 13-year-old daughter.
Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Command’s Public Relations Officer, told newsmen on Sunday that the suspect was arrested following a complaint from the mother of the victim who had been separated from the man years back.
Mr. Oyeyemi said the mother went to Sango Police Station and reported that her daughter came to her house at Ijeshatedo area of Lagos to inform her that the suspect had been having sexual intercourse with her since December 2016 and threatened to kill her if she dared tell anybody about it.
According to Oyeyemi, “She further complained to her mother that she could no longer bear the frequent sexual assault from her father hence she decided to inform her mother.”
Following the report, the suspect was subsequently arrested.
“The suspect, on interrogation owned up to the commission of the crime but attributed it to the devil’s handiwork,” Mr. Oyeyemi said.
The State Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, has since ordered the transfer of the suspect to Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Labour unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation and possible prosecution of the suspect.