WHY could a 50-year-old father murdered his daughter after impregnating the 14-year-old girl?
This is a question the people of Emure
Ekiti, headquarters of Emure Local Government Area in Ekiti State are
still looking for an answer.
The suspect, identified as William, who
hails from Ile Onisa Quarters, was said to have slept with his daughter,
threatening to kill her, if she told anybody about the incest.
Sources in Emure told reporters
yesterday that the mother of the girl had separated from the suspect,
following irreconcilable differences.
The mother was said to have left with
the younger siblings and the deceased remained with her father.She was
said to be responsible for cooking for her father and taking care of the
home following the departure of the mother.
The protruding belly of the deceased was
said to have turned William to an object of ridicule in the community
as locals said the late girl was never known to have any boyfriend in
her lifetime nor was she promiscuous.
William was caught on Sunday at a spot where he was allegedly digging the grave to secretly bury the daughter after allegedly strangling her to death.
He was reportedly taken to the town’s
palace where the chiefs were said to have advised the angry residents
not to take the law into their hands.The body of the deceased was said
to have been deposited in a mortuary as the controversy rages in the
town.
An Emure resident, who gave her name as
Anike, claimed that William in a bid to cover up the crime of serial
rape of his daughter took her to his farm located in Aba Iso area of the
community and allegedly strangled her to death with the unborn baby.
Anike said: “We are sure Williams killed
his pregnant girl so as to cover up his crime because the girl’s
pregnancy was already becoming very conspicuous and everyone knew that
it was her father, who slept with her.”
Another resident, Omodele said: “It took
us a while before we were able to apprehend William and drag him to the
Oba’s palace.”Contacted, police spokesman Alberto Adeyemi said the
matter had not been reported to the state police command headquarters.
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