The Edo Police Command on Wednesday in Benin said it had arrested 71 suspects for various crimes in different parts of the State.
Johnson Kokumo, State’s Commissioner of Police, disclosed this while briefing newsmen on the command’s achievements in the last one month.
Kokumu disclosed that the arrested suspects’ allegedly committed different crimes ranging from kidnapping, armed robbery, rape, murder as well as cultism.
He also said that some of the suspects were from neighbouring Kogi and Delta states.
The CP said among those arrested was a middle aged motorcyclist, Friday Moses, who allegedly defiled and impregnated his daughter, a 13-year-old primary six girl.
Kokumo disclosed that 47 arms, 8 ammunitions, 151 live cartridges and 26 expended cartridges were recovered from the suspects.
The News Agency of Nigeria, however, reports that on interrogation, Moses said his daughter had wrongly accused him.
Meanwhile, the victim, the second child and only daughter of three children in the family, told NAN that her father had allegedly been sleeping with her since she was seven years of age.
The victim, who is carrying a five-month pregnancy, said she lost her mum at a very young age.
She alleged that her father usually threatened to kill her if she disclosed to anyone what he was doing with her.
She, however, said that she summoned courage and reported to members of the community, where they reside, after some of them became suspicious of her condition.
The victim, who hails from Cross Rivers, got her father arrested.
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