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A 40-year-old man, Hafizu Isyaku, has confessed after he allegedly
impregnated his 13-year-old daughter for ritual purposes. The shocking
incident took place in in Maraba, Nasarawa State near Abuja.
According to him, he was forced to sleep with the daughter as required by his cult group if the ritual must work.
The wife and mother of the girl, Maryam Manta, disclosed this to
newsmen at her Kabala Doki residence in Kaduna, saying the incident
occurred at Tudun Wada, Maraba, near Abuja where she resided before
relocating to Kaduna.
She said she got to know about her daughter’s pregnancy when she returned from a three-month journey. She said, “When I returned from my journey where I went to see my parents, I noticed my daughter was sick and was behaving strangely.
"Earlier, I didn’t suspect anything because my husband
constantly gave her some concoctions to drink, claiming it was going to
heal her. When the sickness persisted and I noticed my daughter had
missed her period, I questioned and threatened her to tell me if she had
any affair with any man. Eventually, she opened up to me that her
father had been having canal knowledge of her while I was away.
“When I confronted my husband, he cried and confessed joining a
cult which mounted pressure on him to get his daughter pregnant and
then abort it as a sacrifice. I became confused and wept profusely but
when he promised to disassociate himself from the cult, I went together
with him to the hospital where the pregnancy was aborted.”
She explained that she was shocked after finding out that her
husband was still having sexual intercourse with his daughter after she
had aborted. “I caught him red handed in the very act. I became
heartbroken and absconded from his home in Maraba and returned to Kaduna
with my six children.
"When I arrived Kaduna, I reported the issue to the District
Head of Kabala Doki, Danlami Bawa, who invited my husband for some
discussions.”
She said she had filed a court case at the Sharia Magistrate court,
Magajin-Gari in Kaduna for the full custody of her six children,
alleging that Hafizu, her husband had constantly visited and threatened
her and the children. “He wants to seize the children from me,” she
alleged.
As at the time of filing this report, Hafizu, who is an electronics dealer at Maraba market could not be reached.
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