Mum's Neighbour Lures Teenage Girl with Cake and R*pes Her

A 13yrs old girl who is still in primary six, identified as Princess, has been allegedly r*ped by an okada rider in a hotel on Yemi Aderemi Street, Igbede, in the Ajangbadi area of Lagos.

The name of the hotel was given as Julia Guest House.

The 40-year-old okadaman, Mr Uche Imo, was arrested by the police from the Isokoko division, while the manager of the hotel, who was accused of aiding the act, was invited for interrogation.

It was gathered that Imo and the pupil were neighbours on Tijani Street, Ajangbadi, and he was employed by Princess’ mother to be taking her and her sister to school.

Imo, a father of five, was said to have lured the 13-year-old girl with cake into the hotel. He had reportedly slept with her in the facility four different times.

According to Punch, in one of the instances, Princess declined going inside the hotel room with the suspect, but the manager, William, reportedly persuaded her to follow him in.

The mother of the pupil said she got to know about the ‘s*xual relationship’ between her daughter and Imo on February 14, 2016, after he brought Princess and her sister back from an outing on that day.

She said, “Baba Joy (Imo) was my neighbour and was the one taking my children to school. I paid him N200 every day. On February 14, he came to me and said he wanted to take them out and I allowed him. He bought meat pie and ice cream for them. When they came back, Helen said I should ask her sister (Princess) what happened between her and Baba Joy.

“I asked her, but she denied that anything happened between them. It was when I started beating her that she confessed that Baba Joy had s*x with her, and that it had been happening for long.”

Princess told the police that the Abia State-born Mr Imo had been r*ping her since December 2015, adding that he usually gave her cake.

She said, “I am in primary six and live on the same street with Baba Joy. In December 2015, he took me to the hotel and had s*x with me. I did not want to enter, but the hotel manager said I should. He had taken me there four times and he usually bought cake for me.”

Princess was taken to the Mirabel Centre, a human rights organisation, at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital and the case was subsequently reported to the police.

Mr Imo, in his statement to the police, confessed to the act, saying the hotel manager was aware of it.

“I am married with five children. My first child is in Senior Secondary School two (SS2). I lived at the back of Princess’ house before I parked out in January. I told her I liked her. Whenever she had a chance, she would call me from a business centre and I would pick her up where she was, take her to the hotel and have s*x with her.

“There was a day I took her to the hotel and she did not want to enter. The manager pleaded with her on my behalf. I paid N500 for an hour,” he said.

But the 55-year-old manager, who admitted that Imo was his customer, claimed he had warned him to stop bringing the minor to the hotel.

A police prosecutor, Sergeant Francisca Okere, brought Mr Imo before an Apapa Magistrate’s Court on two counts bordering on r*pe.

He pleaded not guilty before the presiding magistrate, Mrs. A.O. Adegbite, and was granted bail in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties in like sum.

The case was adjourned till April 21, 2016, for trial.