This is the sad tell of the brutality of a father on his 16 year old daughter whose only offence was that she left the house to play with her friends...
A 16 year old girl, Kafayat Bello, in SS2 of a school in Bariga in Lagos, might not get to live a normal life after this unfortunate incident.
Her offence was sneaking out to play with her friends, never expecting to get brutally punished by her commercial bus driver father.
On Tuesday, May 2, 2015, Kafayat’s father, Ibrahim, lynched her and whipped her till she could not walk; it didn't end there as he plugged their pressing iron and burnt her multiple times, inflicting severe injuries all over her body.
Kafayat, whose case has been taken over by the Office of the Public Defender under the Lagos State Ministry of Justice, explained that on the day of the incident, she was given the duty of attending to a client who needed manicure and pedicure in her mother’s beauty parlour.
“When I finished attending to the customer, I left the shop to play with some of my friends. When I got back, my mother asked where I was and told me she would report me to my father. When I got home and my mother told my father what I did, he started to beat me very hard and he then went off to plug a pressing iron, which he used to burn me all over my body,” the girl said.
At this point, Kafayat’s mother who stood by as her husband punished their daughter, rushed out to call neighbours for help, who later came in to restrain him against further damage to the girl’s body.
OPD officials who handled the case said Ibrahim locked up her daughter after the incident and warned her not to go out until the injuries healed so that no one would know what happened.
“But when her classmates came looking for her from school to tell her she had missed some tests. In order not to miss more tests, she rushed to school on Thursday, two days after she sustained the injuries. When she got to school, that was when we discovered the extensive injuries,” a school official who reported the case said.
As soon as the case was reported, Ibrahim was arrested and OPD took over the case.
Our correspondent counted at least 15 visible spots on the body of the girl where she sustained severe injuries from her face down to her thighs.