Police inspector sentenced to 22 years in prison for incest

Gbenga Fajuyi, a police inspector with the Niger State Police Command, has been sentenced to 22 years in prison by a magistrate court for impregnating his 13-year-old daughter.

While announcing the sentence, the magistrate, Christy Barau, described Mr. Fajuyi as a monster. She said as a law enforcement officer, the inspector should have protected his daughter, but raped her instead.

Mr. Fajuyi was found guilty of unlawful sexual intercourse, incest, impregnating a minor, and criminal intimidation.

According to the police prosecutor, Lawrence Owette, the charges contravened section 18 (2) of the Niger State Child Rights Act 2010, as well as sections 390 25 (3) and 397 B of the state’s penal code.

The police stated that Mr Fajuyi, 47, at some time in 2019, in the Ungwan Nasarawa area of Tafa Local Government lured his biological daughter into his room and forcefully had sexual intercourse with her.

“As a result, she was put into the family way and delivered a baby girl and (Mr. Fajuyi) warned her if she told anybody you will kill her.

“During the police investigation, you, Gbenga Fajuyi confessed to the commission of the offence. After delivery, he took the newborn baby to a nearby river and strangulated the baby to death,” the police stated.

When the charges were read to Mr. Fajuyi, he pleaded guilty, but the court decided to try him due to the serious nature of the offense.

Mrs. Barau requested that the police prosecutor prove his case and bring his witnesses and evidence.

The police called the investigating officer, the girl, and her mother as witnesses.

The girl painted a disturbing picture of her father having sexual intercourse with her at twelve years until he impregnated her at thirteen years of age.

“This is sad that this convict who is a police officer and law enforcement officer saddled with the responsibility of protecting lives and properties or fighting crime in society, one would expect him to go the extra mile to protect his own family.

“But he could be this inhuman toward his own biological daughter; a little girl by putting her through all these horrible experiences and putting her in a family way.

“Not only her father failed her; equally, her mother did. As a mother, she could not detect that something was wrong with her daughter until the daughter was close to her full-time pregnancy.

“One can imagine the psychological torture this girl went through with no one to come to her rescue, not even the mother who is expected to share a special bond with her children, she eventually left them in the cruel hands of a monster,” the judge said.