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The Human Right department of Ilemba Hausa Police Division, in Ojo area of Lagos has arrested a 49- year-old man who allegedly had been having carnal knowledge of his teenaged daughter for five years.

It was discovered during investigation that his daughter Janet(not real name)got pregnant in the  process twice, only for her father to

allegedly abort the pregnancy with the aid of a herbalist.


Sitting at a corner in the Human Rights Office,  17-year-old Janet could not raise her head to face her father, Wale Akinusi, who was also there. When approached, she simply stated  that at last, she had been freed from the psychological trauma associated with her father’s sacrilegious act.

Crime Alert gathered that Janet’s tale of woe started after her mother abandoned her barely when she was  two-year-old for her  paternal grandmother.




It was gathered that her mother who was then a Junior Secondary 3 student, was impregnated by Wale who was 32 years old.  Initially, he reportedly denied paternity of the pregnancy but later  opted for an abortion on the ground that he could not afford to father a child then because he was only an apprentice.

But his mother came to the rescue as she offered to  take care of  the baby who turned out to be Janet.

But when she was 12, her father, reportedly took her from her grandmother, with a promise to give her a better education.

Rather than live up to his promise, her father,  allegedly use her to satisfy his sexual urge, a practice that went on until he was arrested.

Narrating how it all started, Janet in her sitting position with her head bowed all through, said: “When I was leaving my grandmother’s house, I was happy because my father said  I would be attending a better school. But I waited for months without being enrolled in any school.

“One night, then, I was 12,my dad called me into his room and  told me  he took  an oat with my mother to be the first man to have sex with me. He said it had a spiritual connotation and that it was to enable him assume his proper financial state.

“Then, I was too young to understand what he meant. He had carnal knowledge of me that night. At a point, he asked if it was painful. All I did was to watch him have his way, still unable to understand what he was doing.”

First pregnancy aborted by a herbalist

“It continued until I was 14 years. Then, I started having a funny feeling. I told him I was sick and when we conducted a pregnancy test, it was positive.  Next day, he told me we were going somewhere and we ended up in the home of a herbalist in Ikorodu, who gave me some concoction. I drank  some in his apartment and took the rest home. After two days,  my menstruation started  and my father assured me all was well.

He only gave me a week’s break before he continued all over again. Two years later, when I was 16 years, I got sick again. When I informed daddy,  we went for another pregnancy test which confirmed my fear; I was pregnant again!

When he returned next day from his shop, he told me there was no need to go to the herbalist. Rather he gave me two sachets of Alabukun and squeezed some lime juice into a cup, asking me to take it in a gulp. It did the magic and the menstrual flow started  few days later.”

“After the second abortion, I became tired of the whole thing. I  started being afraid every night. At times, I would put tissue paper  under my panties , pretending I was witnessing my monthly flow. After a while, he got the trick, for he started  taking note of the date.

Challenges father

“I summoned courage and reported the sacrilegious act   to our neighbors. But none of them could confront him. Rather they told me they could not interfere into our family affair” , she stated, with her head still bent.

Apparently discouraged by the cold reaction from the neighbors, Janet decided to take the bull by the horn. Looking straight into his father’s eyes for the very first time since the sacrilegious act started, she told her father she was tired of the whole thing. To make do her threat, she reportedly rushed to the kitchen, grabbed a knife and  threatened to stab him if he attempted to force her.

“This happened on November 28, 2012. My father had come home from his shop . And at about 6pm, he called me inside to warm his bed.  But when he saw the knife, he retraced his steps. I quickly ran inside my room , with the knife in my hand and packed my things out of the house, to stay with a friend whose family welcomed me after I narrated all that has been going on in the past five years.”

“After spending three weeks with them, I received a text message from my father, asking me to come home, or I would die. When I showed the text message to the family I was putting up with, they suggested I reported the case to the police. I hesitated at first because I was scared he would be jailed.

“But I changed my mind when the text message threat continued”, she said.

I did that to appease the gods – father

When approached, it was obvious that  49-year-old Wale Akinusi, a fashion designer who hails from Ondo central in Ondo state was oblivious of the legal implication of the offense, as he showed no sign of remorse.

He bluntly told this reporter that what he did was not new under the sun, adding that this would not be the first time such story would be published on the pages of newspapers.

“It is not a new thing that a man has sex with his daughter and even if I am jailed at the end,  I will surely come out after serving my jail term. But  I promise that my daughter will join me” he  threatened, dismissing the issue with a wave of the hand.

Continuing, he said: “I went back to claim my child so as to fulfill the  oat made between her mother and I.  That was why I took her  to the herbalist when she was pregnant, so as to appease the gods of her mother’s land. You will not understand.

“You see, when her mother was six months pregnant, we made love. She later told me that it was a taboo  for a man to sleep with a pregnant woman in her place. She said the only  remedy was for the man to be the first person to sleep with the child.

“I initially did not want to do it. But along the line, I discovered that things were not going on well with me financially. And when I made inquiry, I was made to understand that I had to appease the god’s of her mother’s land, so as to attain my rightful place in destiny.”

Asked why he continued after the first time, he kept mute. Also asked why he did not satisfy his sexual urge on his wife who has had four children for him, he explained that they were leaving apart.

“My wife lives  in Ketu with the children while I live in Ojo. I had to live apart because I do not want my wife and children to suffer the consequences of my sin.  Also I did not want my wife to know I was sleeping with my own daughter”, he said.

Meanwhile, effort according to sources at the Human Rights department, was on to arrest the herbalist who allegedly gave Janet the concoction that aborted her  first pregnancy,while her father would be charged to court.

Saharareporters has obtained a secret report by the Nigerian Army implicating current National Security Adviser, Gen Andrew Azazi (rtd), former Governors James Ibori and DSP Alamieyeseigha, and former Director-General of the State Security Service, Lt. Col Kayode Are (rtd) in the massive diversion and sale of Nigerian army weaponry to Niger Delta militants.

SaharaReporters obtained the intelligence report one week after Sonny Bowie Okah denounced members of his family as “killers” and vowed to destroy them, and a few days after the State Security Services intercepted 13 container loads of arms being imported into Nigeria through the Lagos port.

Sonny Bowei Okah, a brother to Henry Okah, the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta currently facing terrorism charges in South Africa, is portrayed in the report as a central character in the deals. Also mentioned in the document are Major Gen R.O. Adekhegba, a former Director of the Directorate of Military Intelligence, Henry Okah himself, Major S.A. Akubo, a serving army officer, and ten soldiers who worked with the Nigerian Army Ordinance Corps.

The 35-page report, which is dated November 2007, is the product of an intensive investigation by the headquarters of the Nigerian Army Intelligence Corps following a tip-off by a soldier and a red flag by the SSS that army weapons were flowing from an ordinance depots in Kaduna and Jaji to militants.

Azazi, who was chief of army staff at the time, Adekhegba, former army intelligence chief, and Are, the then SSS director, reportedly covered up the matter. Ibori and Alamieyeseigha were named as having financed the arms deals.

The report, suppressed for long by the military hierarchy and the Federal Government, details in shocking detail how Sunny Okah funneled over N100 million to Major Akubo and the soldiers in exchange for over 7,000 cache of assorted arms and ammunition.

The report reveals that, within a seven-year period, Sonny Okah colluded with Major Akubo to move the weaponry. “They would surreptitiously drive Isuzu pick-up vans and sewage disposal trucks into ordinance depots in Jaji and Kaduna and then ferry out high-caliber and light weapons, even ammunitions,” said a source within the intelligence community who also had access to the report.

The report describes Sunny Okah as the major middleman between the soldiers and the militants, including his brother Henry.

“The amount of weapons stolen are enough to hold not just Port Harcourt hostage but the whole of Nigeria,” the report notes. “Should criminals decide to spread out to major cities of Nigeria with just a few of these weapons and cause chaos simultaneously, it is doubtful if we will not have a national state of emergency situation in our hands.”

The weapons include rocket launchers, UMGs, GPMGs, G3 and Mark IV rifles, Barretta rifles, AK 47 and bagfuls of ammunitions.

The investigation was triggered when a certain Private Zamanu Adamu who, while on guard at the ordinance depot in Jaji, Kaduna, in September 2007, reported that the seal on the depot had been broken and that some items had been removed.

In its investigation, the army intelligence corps interrogated Sunny Okah, Major Akubo and the soldiers who confessed to the crime. The investigators unearthed the fact that there was an earlier arms sale at 1 Ordinance Base in Kaduna. Major Akubo is named as the prime suspect in that deal.

Our investigation revealed that, rather than get to the bottom of the case and bring perpetrators to book, both the SSS and the Directorate of Military Intelligence engaged in official cover-ups. Azazi, Are and Adekhegba spearheaded the campaign to bury the report.

“It’s true that the SSS launched an investigation quite all right, and even got the army authorities to release the suspects – Major Akubo and the soldiers – to it for interrogation,” said an army source. He added that “the investigation was soon truncated and the suspects, including Sunny Okah, were released even after they confessed to the crime.”

Our sources disclosed that then Major Akubo was taken in by the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI), but was interrogated by a one-man panel appointed by Adekhegba. He was curiously released to return to his unit based on instructions from Azazi, even when his involvement in the scandalous deals had been firmly established.

At the time the arms thefts began, Azazi was General Officer Commanding the 1st Division in Kaduna. Investigators suggested that he handled the case shabbily in order to cover up his “command failure”.

“Is there a likelihood that this case was shabbily handled in order that Gen Azazi’s failures may remain undiscovered?” the report asked. “Did Gen Azazi use course mate influence on the then DG of DSS Lt Col LKK Are (rtd) to ensure that the case remain suppressed? Otherwise, why did it take until now when Are is no longer in office for the DSS to reopen the case and be willing to cooperate fully.” The report added, “Gen Azazi obviously has more questions to answer regarding his roles in this case.”


The report manipulated Ibori and Alamieyeseigha as financiers of the arms acquisition. Both men, who were state governors at the time, allegedly provided the funds with which Sunny Okah went on his arms shopping spree.

“These two politicians are mentioned as financiers of the arms acquisition project,” the report said. “Certainly, they would not have provided money without knowing the source of the weapons. Simply put, a breach of security of this magnitude was deliberately masterminded by state governors.”

Major Akubo is reported to have confessed to investigators that Sunny Okah approached him in 2004 stating that Ibori and Alamieyeseigha had given him a job to source for arms on their behalf. Okah asked for Akubo’s help to deliver on the job.

Ibori recently appealed the ruling by a court in Dubai that he should be extradited to the UK to face charges for money laundering. Meanwhile Alamieyeseigha, a convict who served a short jail term for corrupt enrichment, is championing the President Goodluck Jonathan’s presidential election bid.

The report recommended that Azazi and Adekhegba be sanctioned and that the indicted governors should be further investigated.

The recommendations were not implemented. In fact, shortly before the report was written, Azazi forwarded the name of the former DMI chief for a national award while Sunny Okah was set free. Sunny Okah has since been recruited by the Jonathan administration and is being used to press the case against his brothers, Charles and Henry, over the October 1 Abuja bomb blast.

A few weeks ago, Jonathan appointed Azazi as his new national security adviser. Despite his indictment in the report, Azazi enjoyed one of the fastest career elevations among Nigerian military officers. Between mid-2006 and mid-2007, he rose from Major General to Lieutenant General to General.

However, on August 20, 2008, months after the report was written, Umaru Yar’Adua fired Azazi as Chief of Defense Staff and retired him from the Army. Two sources have told Saharareporters that the arms deal report of 2007 influenced Yar’Adua’s decision to fire Azazi from his post. One of those sources revealed that then Vice President Jonathan was aware of the reason for Azazi’s firing. “By asking General Azazi to come out of retirement and become his NSA, is President Jonathan out to register his disagreement with the judgment of the late president?” asked the source.

However, Major Akubo and the soldiers have since been court-martialed, dismissed from the army and are serving jail terms.

The investigative report wondered how widespread the theft and sale of military arms thefts were, not just in the army but in the navy, the air force, the police, and other armed agencies. It also raised questions about the role of politicians as financiers of the deals, and wondered about how the arms shopping affected national security.

After an overview of the many issues raised by the arms deals and the highly placed individuals involved in them, the investigative report formulated a conspiracy theory. It suggested that there was a link between the aborted Orkar coup in 1989, the 2001 Ikeja Cantonment arms depot explosions, the arms theft at 1BODK, and the militancy in the Niger Delta.

“It is believed that there is an orchestrated plan by the Niger Deltans to secede from Nigeria which is being played out over the years with every opportunity they have,” the report concluded.

http://www.saharareporters.com/sites/default/files/uploads/Azazi.pdf

sleekdot: Replacing a neutral with a bigot

Igwe.:
Lol Afam, over to you

baby_mama: Shouldn't this thread be locked?

torkaka: What the hell? We are in a democracy for heavens sake!

You banned him because he showed proof of your bigotry?

dayokanu: Afam is a tool and very daft to boot thats why he is acting that way. A dropout would always be a dropout

berem: Exactly! I was about saying the same thing.

please Afam you need to curtail the way you talk.take a good example from your co-mods.you must not reply everyone to avoid saying what you ought not to say.

torkaka: So it's qouta system now

oyb: appeasement is a dangerous game a guy named wilt chamberlain had the same idea towards the nazis

torkaka: @gar.ri(x7)

Then seun might as well start making arrangements to appoint 250 mods to cater for all the tribes that make up nigeria!

afam4eva: Isn't it weird that people who accuse me of bigotry cannot even prove it to save their lives.

afam4eva: This new year will present the much desired change as i will be that moderator that will rid the politics section of any sort of tribalism and hate. never again will Nairaland be seen with ethnic myopia.

Afam bu Afam

afam4eva: So, is it not the duty of the government to enforce these laws with utmost vigour, rather than ban bikes totally? Is the government indirectly telling us that they've failed in this regard?

Deputy Governor of the state, Mrs. Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, said these at a stakeholders’ forum on the law in Lagos.

 The forum, which had in attendance representatives of Community Development Associations, Community Development Committees and Supervisory Councillors of local governments among others, was organised by the ministries of Transportation and Rural Development.

Orelope-Adefulire said with the traffic law, the government would no longer fold its arms and watch its roads turned to slaughter slabs by reckless motorists and okada riders.

 She said, “This law has to do with us as a people of Lagos and those dealing with us. The law is for the benefit of all of us.

“There had been incidents involving okadas, which were avoidable. The okada riders riders have caused untold agonies for families as a result of accidents caused by their recklessness. Sometimes the injuries are so bad that death is preferable.”

The Commissioner for Transportation, Kayode Opeifa, urged the participants at the forum to educate residents in their areas on the law and also help in preventing okada operations in restricted areas of the state.

He said, “There are 9, 100 roads in Lagos State and we have restricted okada operations in 475. Those who want to abandon riding could go to our skills acquisition centre to learn a vocation. Others that want to embrace farming will be trained and helped to get banks to finance them.”

Commissioner for Rural Development, Cornelius Ojelabi, urged residents to cooperate with the government in the enforcement of the law.

 He said regulation of okada operations would not only sanitise the roads, but also ensure security in the state.

 Deputy Commissioner of Police, Tunde Sobulo, who represented the state commissioner of police, said the police would support the law and do everything to make it work.

 He said, “I know that people expected that some policemen would want to use the law to extort. We have also expected that and we have put up measures to prevent it.”

Earlier, the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Justice Reform, Olanrewaju Akinsola, said the past law was enacted in 1949 and had been reviewed 12 times

babapupa: And you stay out of threads if you are not man enough to engage without crying, moaning or broadcasting to us you are a mod.

In fact, you are derailing the thread. If you need to broadcast to the world that you are a mod and you are power drunk, feel free to start your own thread with all that.


It's not like you are making any sense with your argument regarding the topic anyways...

afam4eva: My objective is to get rid of trolls on both sides of the divide.

There's freedom of speech on this forum but what you should be worried about is freedom after speech.

You can open as many accounts as you want and they will be banned as soon as it's ascertained that you own the new account.

Your best bet will be to stay outa trouble and play safe else the mods will play you.

He who has ears let him hear.

Happy New year

afam4eva: @GARRI (x)

Let me just give you the benefit of the doubt and warn you never to insult me again or anyone else, else you'll be banned. The regime of craziness of craziness is over. If you can't argue constructively without result to insults and tribal hate then be ready to be banned. This is the last warning.

afam4eva: No state in the federation should be compared with each other. They have idiosyncrasies that are peculiar to them. These places don't have much issues with transportation like Lagos.

ballabriggs: But meanwhile by koboko and put inside your car. Once in a while naija drivers dey need koboko to correct somethings. I am talking from experience, my uncle had one in his car those days

Dogbeji2: Uduaghan has delivered in delta state and we the people are very happy with him.God bless Uduaghan

vislabraye: So he's worse than Ibori according to the woman?
Can any body beat Ibori's record?