The Oyo State Police Command, on Monday, June 1, arrested and paraded a 60-year-old herbalist, Tajudeen Awoniyi, believed to have raped his two daughters and two other minors who are his nieces.
Awoniyi's daughters confirmed their father’s ceaseless incestuous relationship with them, adding that they were victims of his uncontrollable knack for raping minors.
One of the suspect’s daughters, Barakat, 15, alleged that her father, actually slept with the two other girls (his nieces).
Barakat also maintained that her father who had developed the habit of sleeping with her and her sister after getting drunk had threatened to punish them severely if they ever disclosed his mischief.
She said: “We came home with our cousins, Noimot, 14, and Kehinde, 15, on the evening of the incident but when it was too late, they decided to sleep in our house because their mother had travelled.
“My father later gave them black soap and called them into his shrine one after the other and slept with them.
“Each time he was drunk, he would rape me and my sister in the house. He had done it to me three times. I cried but could not tell anyone for fear of my father,” she said.
On the whereabouts of their mother during the incidents, she said that their mother left the home when they were very young.
Sadly, the police commissioner, Mohammed Katsina said said doctor’s report indicated that the girls have been infected with sexually transmitted diseases.