A 15-year-old girl (pictured above), who is currently pregnant, has
accused her uncle, Femi Kolajolu, of raping her at his home in Festac
town Lagos state. According to The Nation,
the girl who is a Junior Secondary School III pupil in a Lagos public
school, said her Uncle has been sexually abusing her since 2013.
“The first time the incident happened, I was sleeping with my boyfriend. My uncle entered my room; sent my boyfriend out and raped me. The second time, I was sleeping in my room with my younger sister. He opened the gate, covered my mouth and slept with me. Then, my mum was admitted in a hospital because she was ill.” She claimed that the last time he forcefully slept with her was early last year before she discovered that she was expecting a baby.
“Last June, I realised I had missed my period for the
previous month but I didn’t know what caused it. It was after my mum took me to
the hospital we were told I was three-month pregnant. I don’t know who is
responsible; if it is my boyfriend or my uncle. I intend to sit for my Junior
School Certificate Examination (JSCE) next month. Since my father died last
year, my uncle took everything he gave us. My mum was left with nothing to
cater for the six of us,” she added.
Her mother, Mrs Yinka Kolajolu, said her daughter never told
her what her uncle was doing to her, adding that she got to know after her
husband’s death. Mrs Kolajolu said when her daughter told her what she had been
going through, she discharged herself and moved out of the house with her
children.
“It was when we moved to our new place I realised that my
daughter hasn’t seen her period and when I asked her, she said it seized that
she didn’t know. Although when we moved to the neighbourhood she has been
mingling with some boys so I thought one of them was responsible for the pregnancy.
It was later she told me how my husband’s brother started sleeping with her.
She said he threatened to injure her if she told anyone. When I told him she is
pregnant, he asked who was responsible and I said I didn’t know. He said he was
okay with whatever I did. The reason I left my husband’s house was because his
brother said he was going to kill me just the way he killed my husband. When I
didn’t know what to do, I went to meet his wife who also told me her husband
tried to rape their first daughter. We reported the matter to a mediation
centre but he didn’t show up. We were now referred to Lagos State Domestic
Violence and Sexual Response Team (DVSR). She is my step daughter she has been
with me since she was one-year-old after her mother’s death. I am her mother.
We are scared of my husband’s brother. I pray our matter is handled well
because we don’t want to suffer.”
The accused’s wife, Ndidi, said she wasn’t surprised to hear
what her husband did because he almost raped their first child last November.
She said she and their five children were asleep when he sneaked in, adding:”He
came around 3am, removed our 14-year-old daughter’s underwear and touched her
breast. It was when my daughter screamed I woke up. We usually don’t put off
our light to sleep but at that moment, it was off. We all ran to the sitting
room to see who came in. As our last child bent, she saw legs behind the
curtain. When we removed the curtain, I saw my naked husband standing. My
daughter cried to the extent of raining curses on her father. When I told him I
was going to report to the police station, he said it won’t take him five
minutes to kill me. Last December, he said myself and the children shouldn’t
visit him again that he has another woman who has given him a son. Since last
December, I am just seeing my husband today (yesterday). Even after he was
summoned at the mediation centre, he didn’t respond. “
Kolajolu, a businessman, who has been detained at the Festac
Police Station, denied raping the girl, adding that he does not know anything
about the pregnancy.
“Even if my wife and I are at loggerheads, this isn’t the
right way to solve it. I have never entered their room. Why will I sleep with
my niece or my own daughter? Is it not shameful,” he said
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