“My mistake is allowing her to live with me when I know that I do
not have a wife or woman friend… I have been unlucky with women”
BY CHIOMA IGBOKWE
“I cannot remember what I did. An evil spirit always possesses me and
as soon as I am done, I will regain my senses. Most especially, my
daughter never resisted whenever I touch her. I am terribly sorry; it
is the devil. I have even attended different deliverance services,
hoping that God will save me.”
Those were the words of a 60-year-old man, Isiaka Alade, who was
arrested by police for allegedly defiling his 14-year-old daughter.
He was picked up by operatives of Lagos State Criminal Investigation
Department, Panti when a good Samaritan, who saw him in the act, alerted
the police. The unfortunate girl (name withheld) was rescued and
handed over to the Police welfare department, pending when she would
reunite with her mother or any other member of her extended family.
At the police station, the teenager revealed that it was her father
who deflowered her sometime in 2013. She alleged that her father
convinced her that there was nothing wrong in what he was doing to her.
He was accused of buying different gifts for her as a way of wooing her
to submit.
Sober and begging for mercy, Alade promised that if given a second
chance, he would return the daughter to her mother. “I am sorry but the
truth is that I am possessed. No normal father will do such a thing to
his daughter. My mistake was allowing her to live with me when I knew
that I do not have a wife or woman friend.”
According to him, the girl is his only surviving child. “I have been
unlucky with women. My first two wives had kids but they all died. I
finally married (this girl’s) mother but she was very stubborn. After
the birth of (the girl), we separated and she went back to our village
in Osun State.
“When (the girl) became eight years, her mother called that I should
come and carry her, as she wanted to remarry. Since she is my only
child, I accepted and brought her to Lagos in 2008. I was able to enroll
her in a private school, till sometime in 2013 when my landlord sold
the house and we were forcefully evicted.
“A member of my church assisted me to get a room in an uncompleted
building in Ayobo, Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State. I
started packing sands and making enough money to sustain both of us. It
was not easy but I managed, while I made plans to return her to her
mother.”
He claimed that he masturbated on top of his daughter, twice. “This
is the one I can remember. I just held her and was playing with her
breasts till I was satisfied. Although I have not slept with another
woman for the past eight years, I have done my best not to womanise. I
will never have sex with anyone that is not my wife. I was planning to
travel to the village and marry another woman who has a job. I do not
know what I did to the baale (community leader) that he has sworn to deal with me.
“This is a matter that I can settle with my daughter as a family. I
promise to return her to the village as soon as possible. I know that
she will forgive me, because we have suffered together in Lagos. I have a
lot of people whom I worked for that currently owe me. My plans were to
use the money to send her to the village. I am not denying whether I
did it or not. I am guilty but please understand that it is the devil
that possessed me, ” he pleaded.
Confirming his arrest, Lagos State police spokesman, DSP Kenneth
Nwosu said that Alade would soon be charged to court. He also said that
the girl is currently at the welfare department, pending when she will
be reunited with her family.
source: sun news
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