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Man in Police net for defiling, impregnating 15-yr-old daughter

POSTED ON November 22, 2024 •   Breaking News      BY Benedicta Bassey
Nigeria Police Logo and an handcuff suspect. Photo: UGC

CALABAR, Nigeria —A 48-year-old man, Mallam Adamu Umaru, was paraded by the Zone 6 Police Command in Cross River State over an allegation of defiling and impregnating his 15-year-old daughter. 

Umaru, who is also facing an attempted murder case in Abuja, was arrested on Friday, following a petition by one Aisha, the victim's aunt.

The command’s spokesperson, Mr Nelson Okpabi made this revelation on Friday to newsmen.

According to the command spokesperson, “The personnel of the Zonal Human Rights Unit acting on a petition referred to the team for investigation, on November 15, 2024, apprehended Mallam Umaru.

“The suspect is a native of Bundugudu LGA of Zamfara State, residing at No. 27 Edem Odo Street, Calabar, who unlawfully defiled his daughter,” he stated.

The spokesman said that the petitioner had stated that she noticed the changes in the girl’s physiology and took her to the hospital where test that was conducted confirmed her to be nine weeks pregnant.

According to police report, the victim in her statement alleged that her father was responsible for her pregnancy.

She added that her father started raping her since 2023 in a hotel located in Calabar and had threatened to kill her should she reveal this to anybody.

“She was further examined by a medical doctor in the Police hospital, Calabar and the result validated the earlier report submitted by her aunt.

“The manager of the hotel in his statement also admitted that he had seen the suspect severally with the victim in the hotel booking temporary accomodation, but never knew she was his daughter,” explained the PPRO.

The suspect, however debunked the allegations and appealed for his release to attend to urgent matter in an Abuja court.

He said, “I am due to appear tomorrow in a Federal High Court in Abuja over murder charges and I did not even commit what am being alleged of against my daughter,” he appealed.

The Police, however, noted the suspect denied the allegation on interrogation, adding that he could not explain how his daughter got pregnant under his watch having separated from her biological mother years back.

The Police however assured that the suspect would be arraign in a court at the end of investigation and face the law of found culpable.

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