By Eberechi Obinagwam
An electrician, Fororunsho Oluwaseun, has told a Lagos court that a police officer, Sargent Orebe Olakunle, who arrested him, threatened to kill him if he refused to write that he slept with his daughter.
“I was shaking when he slapped me, threatened to kill me if I did not write something that corresponded to what my daughter wrote. I had finished writing my first statement when he deceived me by reading options for me to choose from.
“He compelled me to write that I sucked my daughter’s breast. He said if I complied, he would let me go. But I was surprised when I was called back for the case again,” he said.
But Sargent Orebe Olakunle, serving under Gender Desk, Lagos Command, Ikeja told Justice S O Nwaka of the Sexual Offenses and Domestic Violence Court that the defendant wrote his statement himself, that he was not tortured, beaten, slapped or threatened.
“I did not even handcuff him when I brought him to station from his place at Ikorodu. I only asked him if he wants to wait for his family or relation to come before writing his statement and he pointed at his wife and his daughter as his family.
“After writing the statement, I read to him and took him to my superior, ASP Abimbola Williams. She also read his statement to him and signed. I did not slap, beat or threaten him,” said the officer.
He said that the victim, Iyanu Oluwaseun aged 17, the only survival of the accused two daughters, told him that her father has been abusing her sexually since 2012.
That sometimes in 2016, her mother caught her father having sexual intercourse with her, which made the mother to take her to Ibadan from Ikorodu.
In Ibadan, she said that she was teaching in a school but the incident was still bordering her.
When she could not hold it any more, she told her proprietress about it who directed her to an NGO and later the NGO referred her to Lagos.
The case was adjourned to June 28, 2018 to enable the defendant prove that his written statement was obtained under duress.
