Lagos set to impose death sentence on kidnappers

Lagos State Government may soon join the growing number of states such as Edo, Ogun and Anambra that have imposed death sentence on kidnappers.

According to a private member bill sponsored by the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, any person, who kidnaps, abducts, detains, captures or takes another person by any means or tricks with intent to demand ransom or do anything against his/her will commit an offence, and liable on conviction to death sentence.

The bill went through a public hearing on yesterday at the Lateef jakande Auditorium within the Assembly premises with some stakeholders in attendance.

Attempt to kidnap is also criminalised under the bill and it was suggested that such a person would be committed to life imprisonment.

Also, the bill is against false representation to release a kidnapped or abducted person under Section 4, and this attracts seven years imprisonment.

Furthermore, the bill provides that any person, who knowingly or wilfully allows or permits his premises, building or a place belonging or occupied to which he has control of, to be used for the purposes of keeping a person kidnapped is guilty of an offence under the law and liable on conviction to a term of imprisonment of 14 years without an option of fine.

A legal practitioner, Mr Richard Komolafe from the United Action for Change (UAC), who spoke at the stakeholders meeting, commended the bill but said that death sentence was no longer fashionable all over the world.

Komolafe said:”Hanging itself is inhuman by conventions as against life imprisonment. I appreciate this bill, it is very timely, but we hope it will be passed in time.”

He, however, urged the lawmakers to find a way of not getting genuine rescuers from being roped in cases of pretentious kidnap.

Another stakeholder, who is the Director of Legal Drafting in the Lagos State Ministry of Justice, Mrs. Yejide Kolawole, who also commended the bill, said that it was essential that element of conspiracy and attempt to kidnap be added in the bill.

“I suggest 21 years imprisonment for conspiracy to kidnap, depending on the level of involvement. However, seven years penalty for section 4 is too mild. I suggest 20 years to deter those who would want to engage in the crime.

“On Section 5, anyone who instigates kidnapping should be given a stiffer penalty of 25 years, though the person does not participate overtly in act.

“On Section 7, owners of a building used to aid kidnapping should have a higher punishment than mere forfeiture of property,” she said.

Also, a Chief Magistrate in Lagos State, Mrs Seri Sholebo said that it was fundamental to add conspiracy to kidnapping, stressing that the ministry had not been able to convict offenders on conspiracy since 2011.

Sholebo however, suggested 180 days window for trials of offenders rather than the stipulated 60 days due to anticipated delay in handling the cases.

A Director in the Lagos State Office of Public Defender (OPD), Mr. Borokini Fatai wanted to know what could happen if the trial could not be concluded within 60 days, as he said that a defence counsel could ask for the withdrawal of the matter after the stipulated number of days.

Hoodlums force 23-year-old girl to take India hemp before raping her

A 23-year-old girl (name withheld) has experienced one of the worst sexual attacks in Lagos in recent times.

The incident took place around 10pm on Sunday, August 28 at 106, Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, around Pako Bus Stop.

The victim's aunty, a trader in the area, said the young woman had come to her stall around 9pm that day to collect some money.

“I told her to wait so we could pack up together later in the evening. She did. But around 9.30pm when I was still not ready, she said she would go home. She had been sick, so, I thought it was better. Some minutes after 10pm, I packed up and left,” the woman said.

But to her surprise when she got home, she was told Judith had not been seen since she left for the shop.

The family quickly mounted a search for her in the neighbourhood.

Her two brothers went in search of her on streets in the area and they did find her.

One of her brothers who spoke with our correspondent, explained that when he found the victim, he could not believe his eyes.

“Her slippers were all torn, the dress she was wearing was heavy with blood. She was unsteady on her feet. She could hardly stand up,” he said.

A picture of Judith taken soon after she was found showed the ivory-coloured skirt she was wearing blotted with large patches of blood behind and in front.

His brother told our correspondent that when he became frantic and started asking what happened to her, she could hardly talk.

“She said some men raped her. Two men now came out of the front of the house where I found her. One asked me what I was shouting about. He said, ‘Because she was raped, is that why you will not let people ‘hear word’? Is she the first person that will be raped here?’ After all, I gave her Igbo (hemp) and she took it.’

“I was shocked. I could not believe that he had the confidence to tell me he was even the one who gave her Indian hemp. My sister said they forced her to take the Indian hemp and two of them raped her on a chair in front of a shop.”

The victim told her family that the men grabbed her as she crossed the expressway on her way home.

She said when they covered her mouth and dragged her to house number 106, which faces the expressway, they took her inside and forced her to take Indian hemp three times before they raped her.

The two men who allegedly raped her were later identified as Wasiu and Monaco, the names they are popularly known by on the street, while the man who boasted of being the one who gave her the Indian hemp was identified as Olanrewaju Osinubi.

Wasiu and Monaco are currently on the run.

The victim's brother explained that while he argued with the two men, who initially came out, other men came out of the house and joined them, threatening that if he did not leave with his sister, he would be beaten up.

He said, “While we were arguing there, I luckily saw a patrol van of policemen from the Dopemu Police Division passing by and I quickly approached them and explained how my sister was raped.

“The policemen came down from their vehicle and because the crowd of boys in front of the house were threatening, one of the policemen cocked his gun and they all fled.

“But, I immediately grabbed the one who said he gave her Indian hemp to smoke (Osinubi) before he could escape. The police took him and we all went to the station.”

While at the station, it was learnt that the victim continued to bleed heavily as everywhere she sat was soaked with blood.

The police asked the family to take her to the Mirabel Sexual Assault Referral Centre for treatment that night.

But by the time they got there around 12.30am, the centre was close.

But officials at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, where the centre is located, referred them to the Ifako General Hospital, where sexual assault cases are also treated.

After the initial treatment there, Judith was again referred to the Mirabel Centre the following day where she was eventually given comprehensive treatment.

It is unclear whether the centre has sent the report of tests conducted on the victim back to the police as is usually the practice.

However, the victim’s family alleged that they became like bystanders as soon as her case got to the police station.

Her brother told our correspondent, “Before we knew what was happening, a man had come and said he was the lawyer of the one that was arrested (Osinubi). I was shocked when the suspect and his lawyer demanded that the case be transferred to the Isokoko Police Division, Agege, instead. We who were the complainant had no say in the matter.”

It was learnt that the case was eventually transferred to Isokoko where two policewomen were detached to follow the victim’s family home.

Again, the family said they were shocked when they got home and the policewomen told The victim to take them to where the incident occurred.

“She was sleeping when they came. She was still in a terrible state. The police brought the suspect to our home and told us to wake her up so that she could take them to where it happened. It was so ridiculous that they could make her go through that at that point. I was angry but we eventually agreed,” the victim’s brother said.

the victim’s aunty, who followed them to the scene of the attack, said they asked the victim to point to where it happened and she did.

“She showed them the place and even the chair on which she was raped. It was very wet as they had just washed off all the blood,” the woman said.

However, the family said they were surprised when the police charged Osinubi to court on Friday, September 2, 2016 for simply obstructing police work.

According to them, the police have not shown any sympathy for the victim in handling the case and they fear she might never get any justice.

It is not clear what the police are doing currently to track down the two suspects on the run as the Lagos State Police Command spokesperson, Dolapo Badmos, did not pick calls to her line.

However, an activist, Mrs. Esther Ogwu of the Esther Child Rights Foundation, whom the family has approached for help on the matter, said has notified the Sexual Assault department of the Lagos State Ministry of Justice about the case.

“We expect that an urgent step would now be taken on this matter.  This is not a case that  the police should even think of sweeping under the carpet.

“This case is not just about her, it is about other young women and girls who are in danger as long as those men are still on the loose. But I do not think the police have realised how terrible it must be for the victim that she may not get justice,” she said.

 
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Man who shot ex-wife and son confesses on Facebook, says she deserved what she got

Earl Valentine had just critically injured his ex-wife and killed his
namesake son in North Carolina, authorities said. He was somewhere on a
dark road, possibly driving to Richmond to kill his former in-laws.

That’s when Valentine went on Facebook and started broadcasting live.

“She
lied on me, had warrants taken out on me,” he told the camera early
Tuesday, as he divided his gaze between the phone and the road. “She
drug me all the way down to nothing. I loved my wife, but she deserved
what she had coming.”

In his chilling Facebook livestream, which was later re-posted on YouTube, Valentine acknowledged that the violent chain of events he started could end in his own death.

“Pleasure
knowing all y’all,” he said. “I’ve been very sick for months. And this
is something that I could not help. So I don’t know if I’m gonna make it
where I’m going, but if I don’t, I wish all of you a good life.”

Police in
Norlina, a town of 1,100 people about an hour east of Raleigh, spent
Tuesday and Wednesday trying to unravel what caused Valentine allegedly
to kick in the door of his ex-wife’s single-story home and open fire —
and then admit to the crime on social media.

But more than anything, they want to find Earl Valentine.

Authorities
from the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service have joined local and
regional law enforcement agencies in a manhunt stretching from Virginia
to South Carolina, Norlina Police Chief Taylor Bartholomew told The
Washington Post.

Bartholomew said Valentine was carrying a pistol and a shotgun and is considered “extremely” dangerous.

He
said he talked to Valentine on the phone and described him as “cold and
callous,” saying he showed no remorse for the shootings.

“For
somebody that had just done something like that, he was calm but he was
aggressive,” Bartholomew said. “He was trying to pump me for
information. His main focus was to make sure his ex-wife was dead.”

Bartholomew
also quoted Valentine as saying that he wouldn’t be taken alive and
that he planned to kill his in-laws, then himself.

Keisha Valentine and her teenage son had moved to Norlina nearly nine
months ago to get away from her abusive ex-husband, Bartholomew said.

A
year-long domestic violence restraining order she was granted had
expired last month. But the police chief said there’s evidence that Earl
Valentine had exchanged heated words with his ex-wife’s family
on Facebook.

Still, it’s unclear what prompted Tuesday morning’s assault on Hyco Street.

About
1:30 a.m., Earl Valentine burst through the front door of the house and
marched to his ex-wife’s bedroom, Bartholomew said. Keisha Valentine
leaned against the door, trying to keep him out, but he managed to shoot
her anyway.

Their son, awakened by the commotion, confronted his father. But the teenager fell to the floor and was shot in the chest.

Before he died, he called police and told them what had happened.

Earl Valentine faces a first-degree murder charge in his son’s death, Bartholomew said.

Since
Facebook Live launched in April, millions have used the service to
offer a glimpse into the big moments and small details of their lives. 

The view isn’t always pretty.

Earl Valentine is the latest example of a person using Facebook Live to discuss a violent act — or to showcase the act itself.

In June, Larossi Abballa, a terrorism suspect accused of killing a French police captain and his partner in their home, broadcast the aftermath of the attack on Facebook Live. An
occasionally tearful Abballa, speaking a mix of French and Arabic,
swore allegiance to the Islamic State militant group and encouraged
others to follow his example and kill police.

A month later, a Georgia mother went on her daughter’s Facebook account to broadcast herself beating the teenager — punishment for posting sexually explicit pictures on the site.

“This
is my page now,” Shanavia Miller told the camera after she fixed her
hair. “Now I’m gonna need y’all to send this viral. Please share this
because I’m not done. More to come.”

A July shooting in Norfolk that injured three men was inadvertently captured on Facebook Live.
In the video, three men are sitting in a car, smoking and listening to
rap music. Five minutes into the video, there’s a series of 30 gunshots.

And after police in Minnesota fatally shot Philando Castile during a traffic stop in July, his girlfriend opened Facebook and began livestreaming the aftermath. The video was viewed millions of times, sparking outrage and widespread protests.

The
nascent live-streaming service is raising philosophical questions about
the power of unfiltered Internet video that can reach millions
instantly.

As The Post’s Caitlin Dewey wrote in July:

Facebook
Live, which launched globally in April, has quickly emerged as one of
the Internet’s dominant platforms for streaming unfiltered, real-time
video. As Facebook has learned in the past week, however, that status
comes with unique challenges.

Real-time video is exceedingly
difficult to moderate, as it reaches its largest audience
instantaneously and can be redacted only after that moment of impact.
That limits the power of even a dedicated, 24-7 moderation team, which
Facebook Live has. Despite growing concern that the tool could be abused
— several shootings, a police standoff and an accused jihadist’s confession
have streamed on Facebook already — the company has remained
intentionally (and characteristically) vague on the composition and
guidelines of its moderation team.

Man Told Court he was Involved in Rape Because his Wife Starved him of Sex

A middle-aged father, Ojo Adewole, on Wednesday told an Ikole Customary Court in Ekiti that he was involved in rape because his wife starved him of sex.

Adewole, who made this known when he testified in a divorce petition by his wife, Omotayo,35, admitted being involved in a rape case but blamed it on the wife.

He said, “Your honour, my wife had always starved me of sex. Instead of taking care of me and the house, she went about partying and making friends.

“My wife is simply wayward and the family had always supported her deeds.

“Your honour, I may not have the moral justification to ask for the preservation of the marriage, but I am praying the court to reduce my monthly financial obligation to my children to N5,000.”

“My prayer for the slashing of the upkeep money hinges on the fact that I have just been released from detention and I do not have any tangible source of livelihood at the moment.’’

Omotayo had told the court that Adewole had been “sexually unruly’’, adding that he had gambled out their collective property and money.

She said, “Your honour, my husband is so addicted to gambling to the extent of using my three cell phones, cooking stove and other house utensils to gamble.

“His habitual drunkenness made him to beat me so often.

“He is not also responsible for the upkeep of our five children as he evades paying their school fees. Your honour, I am tired of the marriage and I want it dissolved forthwith.”

She further said, “The father of my children does not have respect for her family members even though all of us stood by him when he was involved in a rape case.’’

The mother of five had sought for the custody of all the children and prayed the court to compel the respondent to assign some amount monthly for their upkeep.

In her Judgment, the President of the court, Mrs Yemisi Ojo, dissolve the 15-years-old marriage between Omotayo and Adewole for promiscuity and gambling lifestyle.

Ojo held that the petitioner’s request had merit and “in the light of the evidence before the court it is clear that the respondent’s lifestyle had put off the feelings the petitioner initially had for him.

“It is appropriate in the circumstance for parties to be allowed to go their separate ways.

“I, therefore, order that the custody of the children from the union would remain with the petitioner,’’ the president held.

Ojo said: “the respondent is ordered to give his ex-wife the sum of N10, 000 monthly for the upkeep of the children on monthly basis.’’

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Lagos pastor arrested for harbouring and defiling young girls (photos)

The Lagos state command is currently investigating the general overseer of 'Tongue of Fire Restoration Ministry' for a case of abduction, defilement and abortion. On 30/6/2016, the command received a report that the suspect, a pastor with a church situated on Jacob Taiwo Street Oshodi was harbouring some young girls and freely having unlawful canal knowledge of them.

Upon receipt of the information, the X-squad unit of the command mobilised to the apartment and subsequently rescued 13 girls whose age ranges from 13 to 18years, consequently the pastor was arrested.

Further investigation revealed that the pastor who was in the habit of having sexual intercourse with the girls at will had also procured abortion for some of them. The suspect who is currently undergoing interrogation with the command admitted he had sex with only 6 of them. The victims have been taken for proper medical examination while the commissioner of police, Cp Fatai Owoseni has directed that the suspect be charged to court at the conclusion of the investigation.

SP DOLAPO BADMOS
POLICE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER
LAGOS STATE COMMAND.  

source: LIB

In Bayelsa, a man burnt his 'wife's' mother and brother to death after she divorced him

A 37-year old man allegedly set the home of his in-laws on fire at Isampou in Ekeremor LGA in Bayelsa state, killing the mother-in-law, after his wife divorced him. The brother-in-law, who sustained first degree burns later died at the hospital.

 

Leadership Newspaper has reported that the incident occurred on Thursday, at about 9pm. Angry mob from the community stormed the suspect's village in speed boats with the burnt corpses to carry out a reprisal attack by setting ablaze his family house ablaze in Bomadi, Delta State.

It was gathered that the suspect was having marital problems with his wife who later called off the marriage and returned to her parent's village. An Isampou indigene said:

"Yes I heard about the fire. We gathered that the wife left him some days ago insisting that she does not want to marry him anymore. The wife was living with her husband at Bomadi, Delta state before she left for her mother’s house at Isampou, Bayelsa"

The jilted husband allegedly poured fuel in and around the home of his mother-in-law with the intention of roasting the Wife, who was reported to have planned to sleep in her mother’s room.

"Though the wife had planned to sleep. But changed her mind at the last minute and moved to the house of a friend. It was only her mother and her brother that were in the house during the fire." an eyewitness said

The whereabouts of the suspect is unknown.

Mother shoves crucifix down her daughter's throat until she dies

A 50 year old woman, Juanita Gomez, killed her 33 year old daughter, Geneva Gomez, by shoving a crucifix down her throat because she thought her daughter was possessed.
According to police, Gomez allegedly shoved the crucifix to rid her of the devil which had possessed her body. Gomez made this confession  to police who had come to her Oklahoma City home Saturday afternoon on a welfare check.

According to police, at 2:14 p.m. Saturday, officers responded to a welfare check at a home in the 1500 block of N. McKinley. When they arrived, they found the victim, 33-year-old Geneva Gomez, dead. She had trauma to her body consistent with homicide.
Investigators determined that Geneva Gomez was attacked by her mother after she confessed.
According to a probable cause affidavit, officers arrived at the home and found Geneva Gomez lying in the home with a large cross/crucifix on her chest. Blood was visible, and she had suffered severe trauma to her face and head.

 

Geneva Gomez

Juanita Gomez told police her daughter was possessed by the devil and admitted to punching her daughter repeatedly and forcing a crucifix and religious medallion down her throat until blood came out of her daughter's mouth. She said she watched her daughter die and then placed her body in the shape of a cross. She then tried to clean her daughter and other items in the home.
Juanita Gomez had very swollen hands and several bruises on her arms from assaulting her daughter. She told police those bruises were from her daughter fighting her attempt to "rid Satan from her daughter's body."
Juanita Gomez was arrested at the scene and booked into the Oklahoma County Jail on a complaint of first-degree murder. She's being held without bond.

Source: News 9. 

‘Woman attempts to set neighbour ablaze in Lagos’

A 27-year-old woman, Achonu Ugochi, was on Monday arraigned before a Surulere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly threatening to pour petrol on another woman and set her ablaze.

The woman, who lives in Orile-Iganmu, Lagos, is facing a four counts bordering on assault and threat to life.

The Prosecutor, Sgt. Christopher Okoliko, insisted that the accused committed the offences at about 4:30pm on August 19 at Orile-Iganmu, Lagos.

According to him, the accused and the complainant, Chinyere Okpalla, reside in the same compound.

Okoliko said, “There was a disagreement between them which led to exchange of blows.

“The accused flogged the complainant with a stick causing her serious injuries,” he said.

“The accused did not only flog her with the stick, but also threatened to pour petrol on her with the intent to set her ablaze.

“The accused also detained the complainant and her family in her house by locking the gate to their apartment with a padlock, thereby depriving them of their liberty.”

The offences contravened Section 56 (a), 170 and 270 of Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

Sections 56 (a) and 170 provide one year imprisonment, while Section prescribes two years for deprivation of liberty.

The accused, however, pleaded not guilty and was granted bail in the sum of N100,000 with one surety.

The Magistrate, Mrs. M. Dan-Oni, fixed August 28 for mention.

Man sets wife, son, daughter ablaze over property

A 43-year-old teacher, Gbemisola Edward, and her 11-year-old daughter, Dolapo, have been confirmed dead at an Ogun State hospital after suffering from severe burns.

The woman’s husband, Joshua, was said to have poured petrol on her, their daughter, and his seven-year-old son, Samson, and set fire on them.

PUNCH Metro learnt the incident happened on Thursday on Augustine Street, Ire Akari Estate, in the Ifo Local Government Area, Ogun State, after a disagreement between the couple.

Gbemisola’s son, Joshua Babatunde, 16, who escaped by a whisker, said his stepfather had wanted his mother to sell their three-bedroomed apartment, but she refused.

He said, “It was the scream of my mother that woke me up. Dolapo and Samson were also set ablaze. I wanted to put out the fire when my stepfather poured petrol on me as well. Before he returned with matches, I managed to escape and reported at the Ifo Police Station.

“He was working with a factory but was sacked some months ago. He then told my mother to sell the house so that he could use the money to start a business. But my mother said she would never sell the house she struggled to build.

“We moved into the house in January. The following month, he and Samson started living with us. It was a woman at our former residence in Iyana Ipaja (Lagos State) that bore Samson for him. He used to beat mum while we were in Iyana Ipaja.”

PUNCH Metro gathered that Joshua fled immediately the incident happened, while the victims were admitted to Aron Hospital, a private facility in the area.

Dolapo was said to have died a few minutes after she got to the hospital while the mother died on Friday.

Samson, who has burns in the head, hands and legs, is still responding to treatment.

Gbemisola’s brother, Wale, said she had always been abused by the husband, adding that constant beatings forced her to relocate from Iyana Ipaja to Ifo.

He said, “Their relationship had been fraught with quarrels since when he was living with my sister in our house at Iyana Ipaja. There was a time he threatened to kill her with a machete. He stole her money and fled.

“When he knew my sister had built a house, he went there to reconcile with her. She insisted that they needed to go to the registry which they did in February. I visited my sister two weeks ago. She said her husband had been threatening her again and that she had told him to leave by the end of August.

“It was on Thursday afternoon that I got a call that he set her and the children ablaze.”

The Managing Director, Aron Hospital, Dr. Kayode Ayoola, said, “The burns were serious. The girl died about 10 minutes after she was admitted, while her mother died the following day. The boy’s condition is relatively okay but nobody is ready to take care of him.”

The Ogun State Police Command’s acting spokesperson, ASP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the command had launched a manhunt for the killer husband.

He said, “We learnt the man and his wife had a quarrel over the ownership of the house they lived in. While the family was asleep, the man poured patrol on the living room and set it ablaze. As a result, the woman and the two children suffered first degree burns. The Commissioner of Police has ordered that the suspect be fished out. He can only run, he cannot hide.”

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I Slept with my Daughter 4 times, I can’t be responsible for her Pregnancy

43-year-old Gafar Hamza , a night guard, has been arrested by the Oyo State Police Command in June when a neighbour (names withheld) revealed to the police that he has been sleeping with his daughter.

It was learnt that the father of two separated from his wife about 15 years ago when his second child, a male, was barely a year old.

Hamza’s children went to live with their paternal grandparents in Offa, Kwara State, years after their parents got separated. But Hamza’s neighbour reportedly went to Offa to plead with his mother to release the children to their father so that he could have someone to take care of house chores for him.

According to a source, who craved anonymity, the children’s grandmother was reluctant in releasing them, owing to what she perceived as irresponsibility on her son’s part, but agreed to the request after five days and assurance by the neighbour that the children would be staying with his family.

This arrangement was said to have held for a short period before the suspect complained that his neighbour’s wife was over-pampering his children in a way that would not help them in being skilled in performing house chores.

This led to the girl going to her father’s house every morning to help him out, but in the process, he started having sex with her. It was the frequent sex that eventually led to the girl being pregnant.

It was further gathered that the suspect’s 16-year-old son allegedly caught his father in sex act with his sister twice and, angry at what he perceived as intrusion, the man became hostile to the teenager.

The hostility was so much and obvious that the neighbour was said to have noticed it. When he asked the boy what went wrong between him and his father, he opened up on what he saw his father doing to his sister.

The revelation reportedly made the neighbour’s wife to observe Barakat, only to notice that she had the symptoms of a pregnant lady. The pregnancy was later confirmed.

During interrogation at the police station, a police source disclosed that the lady disclosed that her father was doing ‘it’ with her before she left with her brother for their grandparents’ place in Offa, and had continued on her return.

She further revealed that her father always demanded to know when she was menstruating and strictly warned her against having a boyfriend.

As of July, the pregnancy was three months old, according to medical tests carried out.

In an interview with Hamza who lives at Aroro Makinde in Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State, though an indigene of Offa, Kwara State, he admitted sleeping with his daughter but said he was not sure Barakat did not have a boyfriend who was doing the same thing he was doing to her.

“It is true that I slept with my daughter, but I started with her when she returned to my house in February this year. I think it was diabolic attack from my enemies who do not want my progress in film making that made me do the abominable. I believe it was the devil at work.

“The mother of the children left me about 15 years ago and had remarried. I did not stop her from taking her children with her. I also went into several relationships which failed because the women always left me after taking money from me,” he said.

The suspect confessed to have had sex with his daughter four times, saying that he did not know when he penetrated her as he came to himself after the action.

“She came in to greet me one morning and the next thing was that I saw her getting up beside me,” he further said.

But the man said he was not sure that he is the owner of his daughter’s pregnancy, though he confessed to have ejaculated into her during sex sessions. The reason he gave for his doubt was that he believed that she would have a boyfriend.

When it was pointed it out to him that he was alleged to have warned his daughter against having a relationship with the opposite sex, and that he also monitored her menstrual cycle, Hamza said he became aware of her monthly cycle when the girl returned to her and was having her periods twice in a month.

“Some women noticed that she was getting lean and she told me what she was going through so I took care of her with herbs and her cycle became normal again. After that, she would tell me ‘Daddy, I am menstruating.’ I didn’t tell her not to have boyfriends; I only asked her to be careful in choosing a lover.”

He said he got to know of her pregnant state through his neighbour. When asked whether he would prefer his daughter’s pregnancy to be aborted or left to be delivered, he said “anyone who aborts is a murderer. She should deliver the pregnancy so that people would know that I am not likely to be the father of the baby. And if I happen to be the father, proper punishment should be meted out to me.”

When further probed to know if he saw any other man with his daughter, the suspect simply responded: “One cannot monitor a woman strictly.” He denied being the one who deflowered his daughter, but confessed that his son caught him in sexual act with his daughter twice.

“The first time, I was on top of her and the door was not locked. My son came in and saw us. He greeted me and asked for money for his breakfast. My daughter and I were Unclad. I had already withdrawn from my daughter when he caught us the second time,” he stated.

He denied developing hatred for the boy afterwards, saying he only disciplined him because he was not good academically.

He said his 16-year-old son is still in primary 4, adding that his inability to adequately cater for his children was a result of the death of his two sisters who were helping him in that aspect.

He described his daughter as a dull girl whom he started training after she returned to him. He also confessed to being on drugs, saying “I have been taking marijuana and alcohol for about 15 years. I was taking hemp to keep awake because of my job and the alcoholic drink to keep pneumonia away because of exposure to cold weather in the night.”

Crime Reports learnt that the case which was initially reported at Ojoo police station was transferred to the State Criminal investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) for further investigation.

On enquiry, it was gathered that the suspect was charged in Court 1 in July and was remanded in police custody by the magistrate. The case has been adjourned till August 29.