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Rape: Man jailed 22 years for raping 14-year-old daughter

Mr Udo’s arrest and prosecution by the police followed a petition from a non-governmental organisation after the man’s wife reported his incestuous act to the organisation.

byCletus Ukpong
January 12, 2021
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A family court in Cross River State, South-south Nigeria, on Tuesday, sentenced a man to 22 years imprisonment, without the option of a fine, for raping his 14-year-old daughter. The judge, who is the acting Chief Judge of Cross River State, Eyo Ita, had earlier convicted the man for rape in December.

The convicted man, Emmanuel Thompson Udo, 47, raped his own daughter at his residence in Calabar, according to a report by CrossRiverWatch.

Mr Udo’s arrest and prosecution by the police followed a petition from a non-governmental organisation, the Basic Rights Counsel Initiative, after the man’s wife reported his incestuous act to the organisation.

James Ibor, the principal partner of the Basic Rights Counsel Initiative, spoke to PREMIUM TIMES about the court ruling.

“I want to use this opportunity to commend first, the mother of the child who was bold to seek help by contacting us at the Basic Rights Counsel Initiative, I want to commend the police that carried out a thorough investigation,” he said.

“I want to also commend the attorney general and commissioner for justice, and the members of his office, for the way he conducted the prosecution, I want to commend my staff for providing psychosocial support to the child throughout the period of the proceedings. Above all, I want to commend the acting Chief Judge, Hon. Justice Eyo Ita for the judgment.”

Mr Ibor said the ruling would serve as a deterrent to paedophiles.

“The truth is that rape has not been on the increase (in Nigeria), the reporting has increased.

“If you do a thorough investigation you’ll discover that we have a culture of rape, and that explains why somebody would ask you can a man rape his wife. If you have sex without the consent of your wife, it means rape has taken place,” he said.

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Mr Ibor said the judgement was a relief to the victim.

“The survivor has this feeling of justice, ‘yes, the person who did this to me has been punished’. There’s that satisfaction, there’s that relief, and that is justice. The society also has that satisfaction that justice has been done, perpetrators or would-be perpetrators would be deterred by that judgement,” he added.

Cases of rape appear to be on the rise in Nigeria. Only on January 4, the police in the north-west state of Yobe Police arrested four men for allegedly raping two minors.

A day earlier, the Ogun State government suspended its Commissioner for Environment, Abiodun Abdul-Balogun, for allegedly attempting to rape a 16-year old student.

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Cletus Ukpong is PREMIUM TIMES' assistant editor in charge of Nigeria's South-South region. He is a graduate of Mass Communication, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Twitter: @CletusUkpong

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