7-Year-Old Girl Loses Control Of Bladder After Repeatedly Being Raped By 40-Year Old Man

A seven-year-old girl has completely lost control of her bladder, repeatedly urinating on herself after being sexually violated by a 40-year-old neighbour who calls her ‘my wife.’

The incident, which occurred at Ilupeju PalmGroove area, Lagos State, on Tuesday, has sent shockwaves down the spines of many, who saw the suspect, identified as Baba Michael as a responsible man.
The suspect, a commercial bus driver, is said to have a four-month-old son and lives with his uncle. The baby was the attraction for the victim.

Whenever the girl goes to visit the baby, the suspect would take advantage of her. Nobody would have known about the atrocity, if not that the girl repeatedly urinated on her body during the examination.

The school management suspecting sexual violation alerted Child Protection Network. When the girl urinated on herself during an examination, one of her classmates alerted their class teacher. The victim’s mother, Mrs Ka- 18 Soldier flees from Boko Haram war, steals the car in Lagos Deserter faya Lawal, said that it was her daughter’s class teacher, who informed her about her daughter’s bladder control problem.

“She urinated on herself in the class during exams. It was her classmate, sitting close to her, that first noticed her unusual behaviour. “When her teacher sent for me, she said she thought it was the exam anxiety that made her urinate on her body. She allowed her to continue with her exams. But a few minutes later, she urinated again.

The teacher and headmaster asked me if she had been bedwetting before then, I told them it was long she stopped. It was then I knew something was terribly wrong with my daughter. I started weeping,” the mother said. She explained that the headmaster further asked her the person that was fond of sending the victim on errands in their compound, but she couldn’t think of a single person. Lawal had always encouraged her children to be respectful and run errands for people older than them.

She added: “Before I got to her school, the management had invited Child Protection Network, a human rights group. After much interrogation, my daughter confessed that it was Baba Michael, our neighbour, who defiled her. Baba Michael just moved into our compound two months ago. He lives with his uncle and four-month-old baby.

It is my daughter that usually takes care of the little baby. She also used to run errands for the man. I didn’t know something like that was happening right under my nose. However, I noticed that the man usually calls all young girls in the compound his wife.”

After revealing her ordeal, the victim was taken to Mirabel Centre, at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), where it was confirmed she had been defiled. The Child Protection Network Coordinator, Comrade Toyin Okanlawon, said that when they received the distress call about the case, one of their members at Mushin was sent to the area and the suspect arrested.

He added: “We were able to arrest the suspect through the support of his uncle. My advice to parents and guardians is to take good care of their children, especially the \girl-child. They should prevent them from staying in isolated places.”

The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Chike Oti, did not pick his calls to confirm the story.

Pass Bills That’ll Be Impactful On The Economy – Elumelu tells National Assembly

Chairman of UBA, Tony Elumelu, has called on the National Assembly to pass progressive bills that will impact positively on the economy, following Nigeria’s exit from recession.

He said, “We need the system to work by itself. We need to hold the National Assembly accountable.
“We need to encourage the National Assembly and hold them accountable. We need the National Assembly to help us pass progressive bills to help our country.”
Elumelu, who is also the chairman of Heirs Holding Limited, made the call in Abuja shortly after he was conferred with the Fellowship of the Nigerian Economic Society at the 58th annual conference of the society.

He was honoured alongside the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, and Prof. Essien Okoh of the University of Benin.

Elumelu noted that there were a lot of policies that needed legislative approval to unlock the potential of the economy.

He cited the creation of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria through legislation as an example of what good legislation could do.

Elumelu also urged the Nigerian Economic Society to come, with recommendations to the government that would help reposition the economy on the path of recovery.

Also speaking at the event, Sanusi said certain decisions, which had been taken in the past, were still having adverse consequences on the economy.

For instance, he stated that the constitutional provisions that made it mandatory for each state to have a minister, as well as a certain number of legislative seats at the federal, states and local governments, were not necessary.

According to the emir, this political structure comes with huge financial burden, and this is why the government had huge amounts as overhead expenses.

He said if the government did not address some of the social and political issues, the country was not likely to experience the growth it desired.