Semiu and Kolawole Ayinla are friends or used to be friends. However,
Semiu has now been accused of defiling Ayinla’s daughter not once, twice, but
thrice and in no other place but her father’s bedroom. Abibatu is only 13 years
old.
Disbelief was the word at Arepo in Ijoko area of Ogun State last
Wednesday, when a man, identified as Semiu was arrested by law enforcement
agents. He was alleged to have raped of his best friend’s teenage daughter.
Semiu, 45, and the girl’s father, Kolawole Ayinla had reportedly been friends
for ages now.
It was reported that Semiu was the only friend that accompanied
Ayinla when the latter was taking his wife’s hand in marriage. Ever since
Ayinla married his wife and mother of the rape victim, their friendship had
grown.
The two friends, who live a couple of houses apart, also
reportedly have unrestricted access to each other’s houses and families. On his
part, Ayinla seldom stays at home because of the nature of his work. It was
reported that anytime his friend travelled, Semiu, a father of five, was always
at Ayinla’s house apparently trying to keep the company of Ayinla’s wife and
children.
Unknown to Ayinla and his wife, there is more to Semiu’s
constant trips to their house than meets the eye. It was reported that Semiu
soon started sending his friend’s 13-year-old daughter, Abibatu (not real
names), on errands while he asked her to keep whatever balance was remaining.
On many occasions, Semiu, it was gathered, would send the
teenager to get him an item and would ask her to keep the balance of the money,
which sometimes could be N1, 000. This went on for quite a while before Semiu
made known his intention.
Before long, Semiu worked his way into Abibatu’s heart as the
teenager came to admire and adore her father’s friend more, apparently because
of the strange gestures the man always extend to her alone among her father’s
children.
However, on a sunny Tuesday afternoon in early February, 2013,
Semiu reportedly went to his friend’s house while that latter had travelled as
usual. As fate would have it, only Abibatu was at home. It was a perfect
opportunity for the father of five to do the unexpected.
With a promise of a ‘big’ Christmas gift to the innocent girl,
he reportedly had carnal knowledge of her. He was said to have defiled the girl
on three occasions before the bubble burst. Sharing her experience, Abibatu
claimed that the man, after the first intercourse with her, though promised to
buy a lot of Easter gifts for her, he also threatened to kill her should she
report what transpired between them to anyone, including her parents.
The girl also claimed that Semiu carried out the dastardly act
in her father’s bedroom on the three occasions.
However, last Monday, 4 March, 2013, the defiled girl suddenly
began to develop some complications in her anatomy which necessitated that she
be taken to the hospital. The teenager was reportedly taken to a private
hospital at Ijoko, where doctors had to refer her to the Ifo General Hospital.
It was there that doctors confirmed that some damage had been
done to her vagina as a result of forced and unprotected intercourse with her.
After persistent questioning, the girl eventually owned up and declared that
her father’s friend, Semiu, had forcefully had carnal knowledge of her on three
occasions.
By the time Ayinla got to his friend’s house, he was no longer
there. However, Semiu was eventually picked up by law enforcement agents
attached to the Ifo Police Station, Ogun State on Wednesday, March 6, 2013. He
is currently cooling his heels in their custody.
Speaking with Saturday Mirror on telephone, Ayinla, the raped
girl’s father, said that he trusted his friend such that he usually handed over
his family to him anytime he would be away from home. He said he had no
faintest idea that his own only friend could rape his daughter.
When asked where his friend raped his daughter, Ayinla declared
that it was right in his own bedroom when no one was at home. “I thought he was
my friend but I never knew that he was a devil. He got the chance to move close
to my family because I always asked him to help me oversee their affairs any
time I am away. I never asked Seki to go to his house, but he chose to rape my
daughter in my own house when I was away,” Ayinla said.
Initially when he was arrested, Semiu reportedly laid all the
blames of his actions on the handiwork of the devil, saying that it was unlike
him to do such a thing having fathered five children and with a wife in his
house. “I am like a father to Kola’s children and he is to my children, but all
I can say is that the devil had done this which they accuse me off. This is
highly regrettable and I hope my friend would forgive me of this,” he
reportedly said.
A police source at Ifo Police Station confirmed the arrest of
Semiu but declined further comment on the matter.
Source: National Mirror
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