Man, 62, Rapes 7 –Year Old Girl

A 62 – year Old man, identified as Pa Kolawole Jimoh, a retired Local Government Staff, of Eti-Osa local Government area of Lagos state, has been arrested by policemen attached to the Ayobo police station Ipaja for allegedly raping a seven year old girl.

The suspect who is colling his heels in the police cell reportedly carried out the act when he sent the girl’s younger brother on an errand.

Pa Kolawole Jimoh, a resident of 12 Gabalink Avenue, off Oremeji Street, Ayobo Ipaja Lagos, was said to have given N10. to the younger brother of the victim who was playing along side his sister to buy biscuits and before he returned Jimoh has shut the door and raped the little girl.

Narrating his ordeal with our correspondent, Jimoh said “l am a pensioner, I retired from Eti-Osa Local Government Council. I have five children, three women now married. My wife died three years ago and I am usually lonely in my one room apartment”.

On that day, I called her when she was playing with her younger brothers and I gave N10 to the younger ones to go and buy biscuit to eat and before they came back, I quickly forced my thing into her private part.

“When I was doing it, I heard one of the tenants, a woman shouting her name but I told her not to answer.

After I satisfied my urge pushed her out” the retired Local Government Council worker said.

The Tide gathered that the act blew open when the victim’s father discovred a deep cut in her daughter’s private part and blood stain.

According to him, “the woman who is in the house with me asked her where she went, she opened up that she was sexually abused by Baba, their co-tenant. When the woman told her to pull her pant, that she saw the condition of her virgina”.

The victim, it was lerant was later rushed to hospital where it was also confirmed that she had been sexually abused while the Lagos state police commands spokesman, Mr. Frank Mba (SP) confirmed the arrest and detention of the suspect.

Rivers State Deputy Governor, Engr. Tele Ikuru (right) in a chat with his Sokoto State counterpart, Alhaji Muktar Shagari at a stakeholders conference organized by the National Boundary Commission in Abuja, recently.