Mr Uba was
almost lynched, sake for the timely intervention of the police, who prevented
irate youths in the community from carrying out the act when the news spread,
after his traumatized daughter who is now five-months pregnant, summoned the
courage and reported the matter to a neighbour, who in turn informed the leader
of the youths.
Hannah, a
JSS 3 student of St. Michael Secondary School Obodo Oguta said:
"I have
been living in bondage. My father started having sex with me after his two
wives died. He would always beat me before having sex with me. I told him to
remarry but he refused. Every night he would come and rape me. Any day I
refused to have sex with my father, he would beat me and then rape me. He
always came when the other children were asleep.
It was the
fear of my father's beating that made me not to tell anybody. But one day, I
decided to confess to my neighbour. It was the neighbour who discovered that I
was five months pregnant. Immediately the news spread, youths in the community
gathered to kill my father, but policemen rescued him."
Pastor
Donatus Olisa, General Overseer of Christian Pentecostal Church, where the
suspect and his daughter worship said he learnt about Hannah's predicament from
other members of the church. Shocked to the marrow, Pastor Olisa told Sunday
Sun:
"The
father of the girl, Samuel and his daughter attend my church every Sunday. Some
people told me that Papa Samuel was sleeping with his daughter; they said the
pregnancy that resulted from it had reached five months. I was deeply shocked.
The following morning I went to the house of Papa Samuel and he confessed that
he impregnated the daughter. He acknowledged raping her often."
Hannah's
trouble started in 2012 after her father's second wife died. As the old man,
who hails from Ibiasoegbe in Oru West Local Government Area of Imo State, told
Sunday Sun in an interview, he used to have sex with his second wife even when
she was sick and on admission at the hospital.
He said:
"I had
two wives. My first wife died in 2011 while the second died in 2012. I have
nine children, two girls and seven boys. When my second wife was on admission
in the hospital, I used to have sex with her right in the hospital. But when
she died I started sleeping with my daughter when the other children were
asleep. I began having sex with my daughter because I didn't want to be
sleeping around with other women
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