A man in an estate in Kubwa area of Abuja, whose has been revealed to be Chukwudi Opara and popularly called Rabbi, has been reported to sodomize his four year old daughter while also abusing his wife in the process, eye witness said.
According to a report made public by Edoamawo Udeme of Network Against Domestic Violence Foundation, Rabbi is used to locking his family inside his house for over a year and was not noticed until recently when the cat was let lose from the bag due to a fight that broke out between him and his wife whose name is Glory.
Chukwudi made sure his wife and children had no contact with anyone in the estate since they moved in. His children were also not frequent at school because of his shady deals with his family. The children were also not allowed to have personal relationship with other children within the community.
The report also reveals that Chukwudi Opara was known for his job of making POP (Plaster of Paris), the reason why he interacts with neighbors. He was always found of locking his family indoor whenever he travels on business assignments and would travel with the house keys so the family would not have access to the outside world.
The wife and children were on several occasions had remained under lock and keys while he was away and left them to feed on yam for three months without access to the outside. He exposed them to several risk and he never cared about hazards that could befall them.
He also restricted the wife from working or have any bank account of her own. He maltreated, beat and intimidated her in public and did not allow her have access to a personal mobile phone, even when she was later allowed to access the neighborhood. Glory was usually timid and withdrawn, unkept and sad. No one ever thought or suspected that she and her children were in bondage.
When Rabbi noticed people were begining to suspect his actions, he resulted to bad mouthing his wife, called her lazy and all sorts of bad names just to scare people away from getting familiar with her. He was quoted by a number of neighbors that he would marry another wife.
Sometimes last year, he made moves to rent a shop in the plaza situated in the estate to start a grocery business. This act gave access to the wife to associate with some members of the neighborhood who later became their customers.
Opara and his wife had an argument over going to church. He later went to the church premises where he embarrassed and assaulted het. This led to a fight so much that he told her to move out of his house or else he will do the undo to her. Glory moved her things out because her husband statement was a subtle threat to her life and demanded to go with her children.
He refused to hand over the children to her. He went around the estate to deny being the father of their daughter. When neighbors observed the sudden disappearance of the wife, an enquiry was made and it was found out through someone she confided in that Mr. Chukwudi Opara has been abusing the four year old girl.
Her friends and a few concerned women in the estate took up the matter with the help of some men in the neighborhood.
A report was made at Byzhin Police Station, Kubwa for possible investigations into the girl's sexual abuse by her father. The police tried to make the case a domestic violence between husband and wife as against minor sexual abuse reported by the concerned people.
After much pressure and intervention from higher authorities, human rights lawyers of Bereke Radio, NAPTIP and FIDA, the case was transfered to the state CID.
A medical examination was carried out on the four year old girl and it was confirmed that she has been sexually assaulted both in the virginal and anus.
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