Police arrest Delta Speaker's aide, 54, for allegedly raping a 7yr old girl in Sapele

Policemen arrested a 54-year old father of six, Mr. John Onose, for allegedly defiling a
seven-year-old KG2 pupil in Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State.
Onose, who is reportedly an aide to the Delta House of Assembly Speaker
Monday Igbuya, and a former Councillor, on Tuesday, July 19 allegedly lured the victim
to a bush close to his home at Fovie Street, Sapele, and raped her.
According to Sahara Reporters, the victim's mother, Onome Ojakovo, found out about
the incident when her daughter started complaining of severe pains. She confronted the
suspect and he threatened to deal with her should she make the incident public.
"The little girl was playing with two other children while her mother, a neighbor to the
suspect, was drying clothes outside, but noticed the disappearance of the girl and
started looking for her. After about 20 minutes, the child came out from the corner of
the suspect's house." a source told SR.
A doctor at Sapele Central Hospital, where the victim is currently receiving treatment
confirmed the incident. According to the doctor, the victim is responding to treatment
but was badly traumatised.
Narrating the incident to SaharaReporters at the hospital premises, Mrs Ojakova said her
daughter was playing with two other kids when she noticed that her daughter was
nowhere to be found and to her surprise, she later saw her daughter coming out from
somewhere close to the suspect's house.
"When my daughter came out from the corner of Mr. Onose’s house, I didn't suspect
anything until she complained that her private part were hurting badly. I still didn’t pay
serious attention to it. I asked her to go and wash herself, but when she came back
from the school the next day and was still complaining of the pains, I decided to check
and what I saw shocked me," she said, adding that her daughter was bleeding
profusely.
"In my shock, I raised an alarm, which attracted my neighbours. It was then it dawned
on me that my child had been sexually violated. I started crying and I couldn’t imagine
who could have done this evil to my child. I was then advised to put salt in a hot
water with disinfectant and get my daughter to sit astride the hot water. Mr. Onose
came out of his compound, and when my daughter saw him, she was shocked and
pointed to him as the man that injured her," Mrs Ojakovo said.
Her daughter told her that the man called her to somewhere close to the bush, covered
her mouth and penetrated her. Mrs. Ojakovo said the daughter also told her that Onose
only let her go when he heard her calling her daughter's name while looking for her.
She further said Onose and his wife threatened that she would be dealt with if she told
anyone, the reason for which she involved the police.
The Divisional Police Officer at Sapele Police Station, CSP Badaru Musa, who confirmed
the incident, said that the police are still conducting their investigation.
"We are currently investigating the case, but until the reports of the medical
examinations conducted on the girl and the suspect are released, we cannot make an
official statement. But because of the nature of the case, the suspect is currently in
detention," Musa said.
Source: Sahara Reporters