A father, Chukwuma Eze, accused of defiling his teenage daughters, has been remanded at the Kirikiri Prison in Lagos on the orders of an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court.
Eze, a resident of Number 2, Agbeke Close, Iyana-Era, Coker Bus stop, Ijanikin, Lagos, was arraigned on a two-count charge bordering on defilement before Justice Abiola Soladoye.
He, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The prosecutor, Ms T. Olanrewaju-Daudu, told the court that the defendant had unlawful sexual intercourse with his two daughters, aged 16 and 17, several times between 2008 and 2017 at his residence.
The prosecutor said that the defendant started defiling the girls when they were seven and eight years old after the death of their mother.
“Eze defiled the girls at knifepoint, threatening to stab them if they resisted him or told anyone,” she said.
Olarenwaju-Daudu said eight witnesses are scheduled to testify against Eze during the trial and requested that the defendant who attended Monday’s proceedings from home be remanded in prison custody.
Granting the request of the prosecutor, Justice Soladoye ordered that Eze be remanded at the Kirikiri Maximum Security Prisons till October 28 when the case will come up for trial.