BLAME GOD, NOT ME, SAYS MAN WHO DEFILED FOUR DAUGHTERS
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A 64-year-old man, Bassey
Archibong, of No. 10 Kunle Dipo Street, Majidun, Owutu, in the Ikorodu area of
Lagos State, has been arraigned for having carnal knowledge of his four
daughters aged between 12 and 20.
It was learnt that
Archibong had been having incestuous sexual relationship with the girls since
2016.
According NAN, Archibong
was arraigned on three counts of continuous sexual relationship with his
daughters, failure to get their consent and involvement in an amoral relationship
with the victims before the Ikorodu Magistrates’ Court 1, Lagos.
The defendant pleaded not
guilty to the charges.
The prosecutor, John
Iberedem, said Archibong used food as bait to get the girls to consent to his
amorous desire.
Iberedem said whenever the
children objected, he would refer to Lot in the Bible, who had sex with his
daughters and was not punished by God.
The prosecutor also stated
that the offences were punishable under Section 265 (2) of the Criminal Laws of
Lagos State of Nigeria, 2019.
He said, “The defendant
beat the children and starved them whenever they confronted him on why he was
sleeping with them. He would tell them that intercourse between fathers and
daughters were normal and approved by God. He told the children that God did
not punish Lot, who had sexual intercourse with his children, meaning that God
approves of the act.”
The charges read in part,
“That you, Bassey Archibong, between the years 2016 and 2019 at No. 10 Kunle
Dipo Street, Majidun, Owutu, Ikorodu, Lagos State, in the Ikorodu Magisterial
District, did engage your four daughters between the ages of 12 and 20 in
sexual activities by having carnal knowledge of them continuously without their
consent, thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 265 (2) of the
Criminal Laws of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2015.
“That you, Bassey
Archibong, on the same date, time and place in the aforementioned magisterial
district, did have unlawful carnal knowledge of your 20-year-old daughter
without her consent even when you knew that it was morally wrong, thereby
committing an offence punishable under Section 260 (1) of the Criminal Laws of
Lagos State of Nigeria, 2015.”
The Chief Magistrate, Mrs.
F. A. Azeez, remanded the accused person in a correctional facility pending
advice by the Director of Public Prosecutions.
She adjourned the matter
till October 30, 2019.
NAN
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