that her innocent nine-year-old daughter, Nofisat, had
been s exu ally assaulted by their 30-year-old
neighbour, Ikechukwu Obasi, while she was in the
market.
"He has fled his apartment since the incident. But I
want him to face justice and get punishment for what
he did to my daughter," the mother cried out.
"I have never thought that the man could do that to
my daughter. He was such a friendly person in our
compound. All I know about him is that he is a 'Yahoo-
Yahoo boy' (a description for young men who
specialise in perpetrating fraud on the internet).
But how did Ikechukwu got the young girl and r aped
her? Details below:
According to Bilikis, she was in the market when her
daughter came crying, and told her the story about
how their neighbour took advantage of her at their
83, Aina Street, Pako Aguda home, in Surulere, Lagos.
Nofisat, a quiet and shy girl, whose eyes showed the
painful memory of the experience she had gone
through, told our correspondent that she did not
suspect anything when Ikechukwu came into the
room where she was reading in their apartment and
gave her a N1,000 note to go and buy food for him.
She said, "I bought the food and took it to him. But
because the food vendor did not give me back N850
change, he said I should go back and collect it. When I
brought the change back to him, he locked the door.
"He then used a cloth to cover my mouth and I could
not shout. He then carried me to the bed and did it.
When he finished and I was bleeding, he said I should
not tell anybody."
Later that afternoon, the girl narrated what
Ikechukwu did to her to another resident of the
compound, who spotted her crying in front of
Ikechukwu's room.
The neighbour told her to go and report the incident
to her mother in the market.
But by the time they got back, Ikechukwu had locked
his room and fled. He has not been seen since then.
Ikechukwu's phone number which was provided has
not been available as well.
However, Punch visited his Facebook page with the
name Eyekay Da Stika Obasi, where he posted photos
up until January 2, 2015. He had yet to respond to a
message sent to him as of the time of this report.
Ikechukwu's Facebook page states that he attended
the University of Lagos and studied Psychology even
though this could not be verified as a result of the fact
that he did not state when he graduated.
The case was reported at the Aguda Police Division,
Surulere, but the police said they had been unable to
take any action because the culprit had fled.
However, Ikechukwu's family had approached
Nofisat's family, pleading to pay monetary
compensation to settle the matter.
"How can they tell me they want to pay N40,000 so
that I would forget my daughter was r aaped? All I
want is justice for my daughter. They have refused to
produce the man," Nofisat's mother said.
Anyway, Child Rights Activist, Mrs. Esther Ogwu, has
called upon the police to do more than just tell the
family of the suspect to produce him.
She said, "The police should do a thorough job of
tracking down the young man. Who knows the kind of
fetish thing he might have done to the girl? This is a
lesson to parents to be wary of neighbours they leave
their children alone with."
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