Ogun – Police in Ode Remo, Ogun State have arrested a 49 – year old man, Amoda Bola for routinely sleeping with his underage daughter and impregnated her in the process.
Amoda of Idi Oro Street, Ode Remo was arrested on August 17 after his 14 – year old pregnant daughter reported the act at Ode Remo Divisional Police Headquarters.
The girl told the Police that she had been living with her father for some years and that he did not only make love to her often, but also pimped her to five different men at different times for money.
Spokesperson of Ogun State Police Command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident to newsmen in Abeokuta on Sunday.
Oyeyemi said the girl reported that her father was also inviting men to the house to have sex with her after which the men would pay him money.
The Divisioanl Police Officer for Ode Remo Division, Olayemi Fasogbon, mobilised detectives and had the suspect arrested, according to Oyeyemi, a Superintendent of Police (SP).
He added that Amoda’s confession led to the arrest of five others who had slept with the girl at different times on the invitation of the father.
The other suspects are; Ahmed Ogunkoya, 30, Muyiwa Adeoye,48, David Sunday Solaja, 69, Emmanuel Olusanya, 50, and Joshua Olaniran, 50.
Oyeyemi explained that all the suspects had confessed to having slept with the girl and paid money to the father.
The victim, whose mother had separated from the father years back, was practically turned to a prostitute by her father.
She, has however, been taken to state hospital, Isara Remo where it was confirmed that she is pregnant.
The victim insisted that her father is responsible for the pregnancy and that he was the only person who slept with her within the period she got pregnant.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole has ordered the transfer of the suspects to Anti-humans Trafficking and Child Labour Unit of the state Criminal Investigation Department for discreet investigation and possible prosecution.
