Policeman’s wife batters 10-year-old niece over N30

A 38-year-old trader, Mrs. Caroline Akanwa, has been arrested by the Area C Police Command, Lagos State, for allegedly battering her niece, Chioma Uneneme.

It was learnt that Akanwa had in 2015 brought the 10-year-old from Okofia, Anambra State, to the Iponri Police Barracks, where she lived with her police husband and two children.

The victim was said to have assisted with the house chores, as well as the management of Akanwa’s recharge cards business.

Our correspondent was told that the suspect, however, always flogged Uneneme for every offence till her back was marred with sores.

On one of such occasions, the victim was said to have been battered for allegedly selling a recharge card of N1,000 for N970.

Uneneme’s teacher at St. Paul Primary School, Iponri, who discovered the scars, reportedly took her to a hospital for treatment.

The hospital management, however, insisted on a police extract before going ahead with the treatment.

The school was said to have written a petition to the Lagos State Office of the Public Defender on the matter.

Officials of the OPD and policewomen from the Area C Police Command were said to have gone to the barracks to arrest Akanwa.

In her statement at the OPD, the suspect allegedly confessed to the crime, saying she never meant to inflict injuries on her niece.

How 11-yr-old girl became my sex slave – Ogunlade, suspected serial rapist

A large crowd which gathered at the Oyo State Police command, Eleyele Ibadan watched in  disbelief  as a 65-year old man, Akinlolu Ogunlade, claimed that pressures from  an 11- year-old girl made him to keep her as sex slave for four days.

According to him, he had rejected many invitations from the girl before he finally succumbed.

While being paraded by the Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Leye Oyebade, who described the suspect as a serial rapist, Ogunlade said, “I am 65 yrs old and I work as a plumber. I was arrested at Akobo area. The little girl came over to me and started disturbing me to have sex with her and I told her that she was too small. I told her she could not do something of such but she replied by telling me that she could do it.”

“I thereafter had sex with her two times and kept her in my custody just for four days.”

When asked if he did not have a wife, he said,

“I am married but my wife is dead and I have only one child”.

The police alleged that the suspect specialised in abducting teenage girls and keeping them in his hideout as sex slaves.

Narrating how the old man committed the alleged offence, the CP said: “The victim, “Bisi (surname withheld)”, aged 11, left home on May 27 at about 8pm for a church vigil at Abidi-Odan area, Akobo, Ibadan but did not return home on Saturday and all efforts to locate her whereabouts proved abortive.”

“However on May 30,  at about 16:30, police detectives, based on information, traced the victim to the hideout of the suspect at Abidi- Odan area of Akobo, Ibadan where his victim was rescued.”

6-year-old girl burnt to death in Lagos church

The Lagos State Fire Service has disclosed that a six-year-old girl was burnt to death in a church in the early hours of Saturday in Egbeda area of the state.

The Director of the service, Mr Rasak Fadipe, said that the incident occurred at about 2 a.m. at Faith Revival Church, Vanguard reports.

Fadipe further disclosed that the inferno happened in the boys’ quarters of the church while a vigil was going on at the main auditorium.

He said, “We met the fire raging when we arrived. It was after the fire was put out that we discovered the little girl’s burnt body in one of the rooms.

“The church authority was yet to ascertain the cause of the fire. We finally put out the fire at about 5 a. m.”