An Ikeja Magistrate Court has remanded Femi Afolabi, in Kirikiri Correctional Centre for allegedly raping his three under aged daughters and also assaulting their mother. According to the police prosecuting counsel, DSP Kehinde Ajayi, the 35-years-old Afolabi committed the offence in December 2022 at his residence at Onipanu in the Ilupeju area of Lagos State. Afolabi was charged with two counts of defilement and assault. DSP Ajayi said that the mother of the girls had reported that her husband defiled their daughters aged nine, eight and five. She said that when the mother of the girls got to know, she confronted her husband who got very angry and beat her up.
The Magistrate, Ms. Ejiro Kubeinje, who did not take Afolabi’s plea, directed the police to send the case file to the state Director of Public Prosecutions for legal advice. She adjourned the case until March 7 for the DPP’s advice. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that defilement attracts life imprisonment according to the provisions of Section 261 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2005 while assault attracts a one-year jail term, according to the provisions of Section 172 of the law.
