A 50-year-old man, Taiwo Oyelabi, has been arrested by the police in Lagos State for allegedly sleeping with his daughter and impregnating her in the Igando area of the State.
The suspect claimed his 21-year-old daughter, also named Taiwo, kept demanding for sexual intercourse from him because she was possessed.
Oyelabi said he was in his sitting room one fateful day with her daughter when she suddenly grabbed him and started kissing him and ended up raping him.
He said: “Immediately, I stood up and started beating her and then took her to a white garment church where I was told that she was possessed.
“I have slept with her for about five times before I discovered that she was three months pregnant.
“This is the work of the devil because I don’t know what to do with the baby.
“I have separated with her mother when her and her twin sister were two years old.
“It was in the process my sister, who is in Abidjan, came to pick her to stay with her and learn a trade.
“After spending about two years in Abidjan, my sister brought her back to Nigeria that she does not know how to calculate money and she had misplaced a lot of money.
“Since then, we have been living together in my one room apartment.”
Oyelabi said it was when Taiwo returned from Abidjan that the victim’s step mother packed out of the house, claiming that she cannot live in the same room with her, adding: “And to avoid sleeping with her again, I took her to a woman where she started learning nylon making in our area.
“I was surprise after two weeks, she came to where I was sleeping and started kissing me.
“I made love to her that very day.
“Whenever, she started kissing me, I wouldn’t be able to resist her.
“That was why I have been making love to her.
“I was arrested after my landlord knew what was happening between me and my daughter.
“Though he first kept quiet, when we fought, he went to report me to the police and exposed me.
“That was how I was arrested.
“Before I was arrested, I made attempt to kill myself twice because I cannot bear it anymore.
“Firstly, I bought snipper.
“It was collected from me.
“While the second attempt was when I wanted to jumped into a well.
“I was also rescued by some Hausa men who saw me.
“I regret my action.
“What I did is a taboo in our community in Ejigbo, Osun State.
“I don’t deserve to be alive because I don’t know what came over me.”
The Lagos State Commissioner Police, Edgal Imohimi, said the case was reported to the police by concerned members of the public and later called up by the Gender Section of the State Command to do a follow up.
Imohimi said: “The incident started in November 2017 when the suspect took the now grown victim from his sister and brought her home to live with him.
“Since then, the suspect had been having inappropriate sexual liaison with his daughter.
“The result of this unholy alliance between father and daughter led to pregnancy.
“Investigation into the case revealed that the suspect is a security man, but the report from his work place is that whenever he was going to work, he goes with his daughter.
“Meanwhile, the strange behaviour attracted the attention of the community and they reported to the Police.”