Policemen attached to the Area G
Police Command, Lagos State, have arrested Mr Saka Akonda for impregnating his wife’s
13-year-old daughter.
The 13-year-old girl was discovered
to have been put in the family way by her step father, just as his legal wife,
who is the teenager’s mother, is also
six months pregnant. Incidentally, the girl is five months pregnant.
Akonda 36, a furniture maker,
residing at Obawole Iju, Lagos State, was arrested following a complaint filed
by the girl’s paternal uncle.
Yesterday, Akonda, who was dragged
to Ogba Magistrate’s Court to face the music, said that he is so much in love
with his step daughter.
According to him, he was shocked
that police could arrest, even after he had settled matter amicably with the
girl’s biological father.
Akonda, a father of two, admitted to
have accepted responsibility for the underage’s girl pregnancy, stressing that he
was willing and ready to take good care of her. He insisted that he had been doing a lot caring for the girl since she came to
stay with him and his wife five years ago.
He said: “ Everything would have
been okay, but it’s the girl’s father’s brother, that is causing problem. He was
the person that encouraged the girl’s father to arrest me. Even when my wife
said we should abort the girl’s pregnancy, I kicked against it. I was afraid
for her life. I don’t want her to die. I have been sponsoring the girl’s
education since my wife came with her to my house. Her father appreciated my
effort on the girl.”
Akonda said the police officer that
arrested him requested the sum of N50, 000 to settle the case with the girl’s
father, but that he could only cough up 10, 000.
He said: “ Right, I’m begging the
girl’s father to remember that I had been caring for the girl for long. Most
times, her father doesn’t care for her.”
Akonda said that his wife left him after he was
picked by the police.
The girl’s uncle, Oladele Rasheed, 52, a driver, said that the
girl’s mother left his brother house five years ago to marry Akonda.
Rasheed said: “The man, who
impregnated the little girl married my brother’s wife. The woman abandoned her
husband to go and live with this useless man, who has impregnated mother and
daughter. I want the law to take its due course and punish him for his
wickedness. Even if my elder brother backtracks on this matter, I shall not. I would
see this case to the end.”
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