Anambra State Police Command has arrested a man identified as Arinze Obiwenite for allegedly defiling his 12-year-old daughter. Obiwente, who was also accused of using diabolic means to run a “healing” ministry, was arrested during a raid in his home in Abacha community, Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State upon a tipoff from a whistleblower.
The state commissioner for Women and Social Welfare, Mrs Ify Obinabo, was said to lead the raid on the home of the accused, where the 12-year-old girl alongside her other siblings were rescued. The suspect had locked up his children in the room for five years and was allegedly having carnal knowledge of the 12-year-old, while he fingers the younger ones.
According to the media assistant to the commissioner, Miss Chidinma Ikeanyionwu who spoke to journalists on the development, the suspect had been parading himself as a Christian who gives solutions to people seeking for answers without knowing that he has other motives up his sleeves.
When interrogated, the suspect was said to have denied all the allegations levelled against him, but pleaded with the monarch to forgive him and help find a way of resolving the issue without going to court.
Some items said to have been discovered at the suspect’s residence included a long list of paper where he wrote down names of those he has killed and will kill, a hollow grave at his backyard where he admitted he stays to make his incantations if need be and some native medicines which he said were also diabolic. He was also made to break the oath binding him and his three wives during the period of their marriages.
He was later arraigned before the Children, Sexual and Gender Based Violence Magistrate court in Awka on March 23, where he was remanded at the Correctional Centre Amawbia, while the daughter has been taken to an undisclosed hospital for medical examination and possible treatment.
