The police in Lagos State have commenced
investigation into how a nine-year-old girl died,
after sustaining injuries caused by alleged
consistent rape.
According to police authorities, the deceased was
raped over five times, by a 14-year-old student,
Onyi Adimabua, in the Ikorodu area of the state.
The father of the deceased, Simeon Jigo,
told PUNCH Metro that Onyi is the son of the
proprietor of the school his daughter attended.
He said his daughter opened up about the rape
when she started having medical problems.
The 77-year-old man said his daughter died on
October 3, 2013.
He said, “Up until my daughter’s death, she was
a pupil of Fulfilled Greenland School, Ikorodu, and
she was in primary three. One day, she came
home and started complaining of pains around
her vagina, stomach area. We rushed her to
Ikorodu General Hospital.
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“A doctor checked her and after conducting some
tests on her, told us that my daughter had
sustained medical complications due to forced
sexual intercourse. I was alarmed by this; so, I
had a private discussion with my daughter.
“She told me that it was her school proprietor’s
son, Onyi, that had been raping her. The boy had
threatened to kill her if she ever told anyone
about it.”
The indigene of Ondo State told PUNCH
Metro that after initial treatments, he took his
daughter to Arogbo in Ondo State to be taken
care of but her condition continued to deteriorate.
A few days after the troubled father travelled to
Ondo State, Onyi, accompanied by his parents,
also travelled to Ondo State, to apologise to
Jigo’s family. The girl, however, was said to have
died that very day.
“On getting to the house where my daughter
was, we discovered that she was dead. Onyi
confessed that he had been raping my daughter
prior to her death,’ Jigo said.
PUNCH Metro learnt that after the girl’s demise,
irate youths in the area attempted to lynch the
14-year-old boy.
The bereaved father was said to have intervened
and reported the matter to a nearby police
station, where the teenager was held for safe
keeping. The next morning, Onyi and his parents
travelled back to Lagos.
The alleged rapist’s parents, in company with a
chief in Ikorodu, reportedly visited Jigo when he
returned to Lagos. The group were said to have
pleaded that the bereaved father should not
pursue the case but he refused.
Jigo said, “I went to the Ikorodu Police station to
report the case but was surprised when the
policemen on duty said I should not write any
statement. They only told me to write down my
telephone number and said they would call me
later.
