Rasheed Sholabi, a traditional ruler in Ogun state has being arrested by police operatives for allegedly defiling his 15 -year- old daughter.
The spokesperson of the state police command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who disclosed this to newsmen today August 6, said the victim had gone to the Owode Egbado police station to report that her father had been having sex with her since she was 11.
Abimbola said the victim said she lost her mother when she was barely two and had to live with her father. She told the police that her father’s repeated sexual intercourse with her has affected her private part, making it difficult to control her urinary system.
According to the statement, the Divisional Police Officer for Owode-Egbado, Olabisi Elebute, led detectives to the traditional ruler’s palace and arrested him.
The monarch who initially denied the allegation, fainted later when confronted by the victim and one of his ex-wife, who corroborated the victim’s ordeal. The ex-wife told the police that she left the marriage with the monarch after she caught him in the act.
Abimbola said the monarch has since been resuscitated and is helping with the investigation.
In another news, Anaedoonline.ng traditional ruler of Uba community in Awara, Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State, Eze Andrew Okuegbunuwa, has been arrested for allegedly organising kidnapping and armed robbery activities within and outside his community.
The traditional ruler was among suspected members of a kidnapping syndicate that included a native doctor paraded at the Imo State Police Command in Owerri, yesterday.
Speaking during the parade, Imo State Police Commissioner, Isaac Akinmoyede, said: “On 28/7/2020 at about 04:00hrs at Umuokuzu Awara in Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State, operatives of Special Anti-robbery Squad, SARS through painstaking and diligent investigation, arrested one Eze Andrew Okuegbunuwa, male, 59-year-old of Uba community in Awara community in Awara, Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State in connection with kidnap and other armed robbery incidents.
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