Like hail, curses have been raining on Samuel
Uba, a 65-year-old man in Kalabari Beach, Oguta Local Government Area, Imo State,
who is alleged to have committed an abominable act by repeatedly raping his
17-year-old daughter, Hannah Uba and impregnating her in the process. The poor
teenager is now saddled with a five-month-old pregnancy.
It was the timely intervention of the police
that prevented irate youths in the community from lynching him when they got
wind of the abominable act after the violated and traumatized teenager finally
summoned the courage to report the matter to a neighbour, who in turn informed
the leader of the youths.
Recounting the horrific experience she passed through,
Hannah, a JSS 3 student of St. Michael Secondary School Obodo Oguta said: “I
have been living in bondage. My father started having sex with me after his two
wives died. He would always beat me before having sex with me. I told him to
remarry but he refused. Every night he would come and rape me. Any day I
refused to have sex with my father, he would beat me and then rape me. He
always came when the other children were asleep. It was the fear of my father’s
beating that made me not to tell anybody. But one day, I decided to confess to
my neighbour. It was the neighbour who discovered that I was five months
pregnant. Immediately the news spread, youths in the community gathered to kill
my father, but policemen rescued him.”
Pastor Donatus Olisa, General Overseer of
Christian Pentecostal Church, where the suspect and his daughter worship said
he learnt about Hannah’s predicament from other members of the church.
Shocked to the
marrow, Pastor Olisa told Sunday Sun: “The father of the girl, Samuel and his
daughter attend my church every Sunday. Some people told me that Papa Samuel
was sleeping with his daughter; they said the pregnancy that resulted from it
had reached five months. I was deeply shocked. The following morning I went to
the house of Papa Samuel and he confessed that he impregnated the daughter. He
acknowledged raping her often.”
Hannah’s trouble started in 2012 after her
father’s second wife died. As the old man, who hails from Ibiasoegbe in Oru
West Local Government Area of Imo State, told Sunday Sun in an interview, he
used to have sex with his second wife even when she was sick and on admission
at the hospital.
He said: “I had two wives. My first wife died
in 2011 while the second died in 2012. I have nine children, two girls and seven
boys. When my second wife was on admission in the hospital, I used to have sex
with her right in the hospital. But when she died I started sleeping with my
daughter when the other children were asleep. I began having sex with my
daughter because I didn’t want to be sleeping around with other women.”
Ever since the story broke, Imo State
Commissioner of Police, Mr Abdulmajid Ali disclosed that the Command has made
tireless efforts to conduct proper investigation into the case, which he described
as an abomination. He further disclosed that youths in the area were so
incensed that they wanted to lynch the alleged culprit, but noted that the
quick intervention of the Divisional Police Officerin-charge of Oguta Police
Division, Supol Ikembuchukwu Abugu, a Deputy Superintendent of Police and his
men saved the day and rescued the suspect from the hands of the youths. Samuel
was immediately taken into custody on April 30, 2014, pending the conclusion of
investigations.
Although Samuel has appealed to his community
for forgiveness, blaming the devil for the abominable act, the Imo State Police
Commissioner, however, assured that he would be charged to court to answer appropriate
charges for rape and impregnating a legal minor.
Source: Daily Sun
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