Residents of Emure in Emure Local Government Area of Ekiti State, are
still in shock over the dastardly act of a 50-year-old man and native of
the town from Ile onisa quarters, and simply identified as Williams who
allegedly impregnated his 14-year old daughter (names withheld), and
subsequently murdered her to cover up his crime.
Residents in the
community told DAILY POST that Williams had some few months ago ended
up putting his 14-year old daughter in the family way after series of
alleged illicit affair with the poor girl. They added that recently, the
girl began to develop a protruding stomach and no one was seen with her
except her father.
Neighbors who had been suspicious of the
unholy rapport between father and daughter began to peddle rumours about
the source of the girl’s pregnancy. Soon, the news was making the
rounds among the villagers, gossips and rumour mongers that Williams had
performed the ‘uncommon feat’ of impregnating his own daughter.
Moreso, that the community isn’t a complex one as relationships among
residents are closely knitted: like the saying goes ‘bad news spreads
like wild fire”; in no time, everyone began to point fingers at Williams
whenever he passes on the streets, they were telling one another that
he had put his own daughter in the family way.
Then the worst
happened. According to Anike, a lady resident in the community, Williams
woke up on Sunday (September 4) morning, summoned yet another uncommon
courage, took his ‘expectant girl’ to his farm in Aba Iso area of the
community, ended the whole shameful drama there, quietly dispatched the
girl and her unborn baby into an early grave.
“We are sure
Williams killed his pregnant girl so as to cover up his crime because
the girl’s pregnancy was already becoming very conspicuous and everyone
knew that it was her father who slept with her,” the lady said.
”
It took us a while before we were able to apprehend Williams and drag
him to the Oba’s palace, Oba Emmanuel Adebayo who is himself a retired
Police Commissioner.
The monarch has since handed him over to the
Civil Defence Corps who have since taken up the matter,” another
resident, Omodele, said.