A 49-year-old blind gospel musician, Anthony Okhiria, was on Monday paraded by the Edo state police command for allegedly defiling the 9-year-old daughter of his tenant, at house number 9, Isidahomen Street, Ekpoma. .
He, however, denied having canal knowledge of the
minor. According to him, “I didn’t defile anybody. I am a musician, I
sing gospel music. .
My senior brother inherited the house from
our father, but he lives in Lagos, so, I am the one in charge. The
mother and her four girls live in my house, their church used to lay
their rent. .
One day, she came to tell me that the church said
they are not going to pay the rent again. The woman did not want to pay
me, she wanted to seduce me, but I did not agree. .
One day, she
told me that she suspects that I like her, but I told she is not the
one to tell me that I like her. The children also used to come into my
room, doing all sorts of nonsense and I will chase than away. .
I
reported to the woman, bit she will reply that the children are playing
with me, but I told her that I don’t like that kind of play because I
am a Christian. .
The nine year-old-girl sometimes comes into my
bedroom while sleeping, she will be touching my legs. The mother also do
come into my bedroom.
It got to a stage that whenever I am
applying body cream after bathing, this woman will come into my sitting
room, see my unclothedness, instead of going away, she will stay. .
One
day, she just came to me and said that her nine-year-old daughter said I
was sleeping with her. I was shocked. I feel so bad seeing myself in
this mess. I did not defile her, it is a lie,” he said.
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