The Nasarawa State Police command
yesterday paraded one Ikechukwu Desmond Okwonkwo for allegedly raping three of
his daughters. Seven other rapists who gang-raped a beer seller were also
paraded with him.
While addressing journalists at
the state Criminal Investigation Department on the successes recorded by his
Command between September and October 2014, the state Police Commissioner,
Usman Yakubu, said Mr. Okwonkwo’s wife reported the matter to the police.
The police commissioner alleged
that the girls were in their father’s custody when he committed the crime.
The Commissioner said the victims
had since corroborated their mothers testimony that their father had actually
had carnal knowledge of them.
Mr. Yakubu did not provide the
ages of the three girls. He also did not say when Mr. Okwonkwo would be charged
to court.
On the seven other alleged rapists
arrested, the commissioner said they deceived one Joy (surname withheld so she
is not stigmatized) by offering her a lift in their car after having drinks in
her beer parlor only to take her to a different destination and raped her.
The commissioner said, “That on
20/9/2014 at about 10:00hrs one …. (name withheld) ‘f’ of Abuja street Lafia
reported at ‘B’ Division that on the 19/9/2014 at about 19:00hrs a group of
boys numbering seven came to her shop and drank beer up till 00:00hrs”
“When she closed her shop then the
same boys told her to enter their car so that they will drop her at home but
instead they took her to the house of one of them called Mohammed Suleiman ’m’
at M and ‘D’ private hospital along Jos road, Lafia, and had sexual intercourse
without her consent”.
“We have recorded activities of
scrupulous elements who are in the habit of raping innocent minors.
“Notable among them is one
Ikechukwu Demond Okwonkwo who has been having carnal knowledge of his three
daughters. This revelation was made known to the police by his wife”.
He therefore urged the general
public to report any case of rape/defilement/incest to the nearest Police
Station so as to curb this condemnable act.
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