According to the girls, Enobong, 16 and
Imaobong, 13, not real names , their father, a mechanic and driver, from
Mkpat Enin Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, turned them into $.x objects and always ra.ped them without using c0ndoms.
The accused man , Mr . Okon Jimmy Amah
40, father of four, allegedly had $exual intercourse with both girls at
different times , especially at midnight in their home. Amah confessed
to have had $ex with both of his daughters. He however added that he was
only attempting to check if the girls were still virgins. According to
him, he continued to have $ex with them, because his second wife, who
lives with him, used to deny him $ex.
Enobong is a Junior Secondary School
(JSS3 ) student , Uyo , Akwa Ibom State. Enobong also sells recharge
cards at the State Secretariat Complex, Uyo. Enobong was living with her
mother in Benin, Edo State, until April 9, 2015, when she decided to
visit her father in Uyo . It was after she got there , that her father
turned her into his lover. She said:
“My father started soliciting s.x from me. In fact, that April , my father forcefully had s.xual intercourse with me in our small room.He had s.x with me in the middle of the night. He has had s.x with me several times. I have lost count of the number of times he had s.x with me. What is making this issue explodes now , is that one day, after I returned from selling recharge cards , my father got angry that I got home late. I tried to explain to him that I had to balance my account.
He however refused to accept my
explanation. He started flogging me with a fan belt. ” Enobong said her
father used a motor fan belt to flog her.
The girl said that her father beating
her, was nothing new, but the beating of that particular day, was too
severe. The beating left a lot of bruises on Enobong’s body. It was so
obvious that one of her customers, who noticed the bruises the following
day, asked her what happened.
Apparently sick and tired of the life
she had been subjected to, hungry for a person to share her pains,
Enobong poured out her heart to the customer. The shocked customer
happened to be a lawyer.
He took the matter to the Ministry of
Women Affairs and Social Welfare, Akwa Ibom State. Enobong was invited
to share her horrifying experience . She also revealed that she had once
told her stepmother, that her father used to have s.x with her and her
younger sister, Imaobong.
Recollecting her own experience , Imaobong said she was 11 year old when her father started having s.x with her.
She said:
“My father returned home one day and called me to a quiet place. He asked me whether I had ever had s.x with a man before. I said no. He said he would be the first man to have s.x with me. I was shocked . I wanted to say something, but he shouted at me to shut up.“When it was midnight, my father raped me. I cried and felt ashamed . He raped me , not once , not twice . He raped me several times . One day , my mother heard me crying, she came to me. I told her the little I could. My mum was angry. But my father didn ’t stop having s.x with me.
My mum knows about it.
” Amah is married to two wives. One lives with him , while the other does business in Benin, Edo State. Amah , who is in police custody , didn ’t deny the allegations. He however denied having s.x with his daughters several times . According to him , he did it, “only once. ”
He said:
“Yes, I slept with my daughters in the bedroom room, while my wife was sleeping in the sitting room. My wife was ill with malaria. She had been ill for a week . Sometimes , my wife used to deny me s.x. That was why I solicited s.x from my daughters. ” According to him , aside from his wife s.xually starving him, he suspected that his daughter, Imaobong, wasn’t a virgin. He needed to confirm.
His words:
“ I suspected that Imaobong has had s.x with a man. But when I inserted my manhood into her vagina, I discovered that she had never had sex. At that point, I immediately removed my manhood from her vagina. ” As if carrying out the ‘manhood test’ on Imaobong wasn’t enough, Amah, also decided to verify Enobong’s virginity. He said: “In the case of Enobong, I also intended to find out if she has had s.xual intercourse with any man.When I inserted my manhood into her v*gina, I discovered that no man has had s.x with her. I immediately removed my manhood. ” Amah further admitted to using motor fan belt to beat Enobong, after having s.x with her. He said: “It’ s true I flogged my daughter with a car fan belt, after which I dumped it in my pit toilet. ”
The Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Welfare invited the police. The girls’ father was arrested and charged to court.
He was arraigned on three – count charge
of incest, carnal knowledge and assault, contrary to Section 242 and
364 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Akwa Ibom State. When the matter, with
suit number HU/65 C/2016, came up before Justice Okon Okon of the State
High Court in Uyo, on July 14, 2016, there was no witness to testify
against the accused person.
The Defence Counsel, Barrister Harrison
Ernest, raised an objection. He argued that the matter should be struck
out, for lack of diligent prosecution, since there was no witness in the
case.
The court ruled that by the next
adjourned date, if the Prosecution Counsel, Barrister Mary Icoba,
couldn’t produce witnesses, the court would have no option, than to
strike out the case against the accused person.
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