Family threaten, police pressure woman for reporting hubby who defiled three daughters

 

Family members of one Mr Emeka Christopher Orisakwe  who has been  allegedly defiling his three daughters aged 4,6,and 8 years old  have threatened his wife Mrs. Orisakwe for exposing his crime. 

It was gathered that aside this threat, policemen from the Lagos state command also allegedly  pressured Mrs Orisakwe to withdraw the allegations. 

It was gathered that the defilement  was reported at the Satellite police station  but the wife was forced to backed down because of pressure from family members and the police sources said. 

 "They 

asked her who will take of her and her children's education if the man was arrested and detained.  I was informed in June that they had family meeting between the families and warned the  man never to do what he had done.  According to the mother her brothers promised to act if they had any more news of his act. 

Now that he is continuing because he did it again with the four year old two weeks ago according to the mother. Her husband's family still don't believe that the man is doing such s thing and blaming the woman for accusing their son wrongly. The lady is traumatized. The lady is insisting that she is not interested in the case any more and wants to return to the village where her family had planned to meet with them to settle the issue I was called by the wife of the suspect this morning after I left their house that the IPO from Agboju called her that they were visiting her. I said that's fine and advised her to inform them about the threat she was receiving from her husband family. Just two minutes ago she called me that the police actually came from Ikeja and pleaded with her to withdraw the case, stating that the case is a family case, that the man is the bread winner of the family and nobody will assist her if anything happened to the man. She said they told her that the man may die if the case continued and that nobody has given the man food since yesterday. They have asked her to go tomorrow and withdrawn the case. They want to settle the matter at home in the village. She doesn't want anyone to pressurize her" 

Following the threats, it was gathered that child rights advocates under the auspices of Advocates For Children And Vulnerable Persons Network ACVPN saw to it that  the randy father was  detained at the Gender Unit Lagos state police command  headquarters Ikeja. 

The advocates also called on the Deputy Commissioner of Police SCID Panti to intervene concerning the suspect' s family threatening to deal with the mother of these victims if they should step foot in their house 

The source said "They are sleeping somewhere tonight because the man had changed the locks before she got home. We were told by WARIF centre that there is an established case of sexual assault after examination of the kids and the results will be sent to Gender Ikeja . The Husband had claimed that his wife had mental problems and that nobody should take her serious but conversations with the woman reveals otherwise"

We also raised objections about going to WARIF instead of Mirabel close by but the officers on ground said that they have also been sending cases to

 MIRABEL so decided to send us to WARIF so it won't be one sided". 

It was gathered that a chief from the village has  been pressuring the wife Mrs Orisakwe and the child rights advocates  to withdraw the case from the police station stating that the defilement is an abomination in their village and  rituals need to be performed to cleanse the suspect and the girls from damnation and sudden death. 

The child rights advocates however maintained that justice must be served in a law court as they informed Mrs Orisakwe that she would be supported financially to cater for her children when the randy father is behind bars. 

Efforts to get a comment from the Lagos state police command was not successful. Sources said  at the time of this report ,the new Lagos State police command spokes person CSP Ajisebutu is yet to assume office.