Anambra State Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare Honorable Ify Obinabo has rescued a 12 year old girl alongside her siblings from one Mr. Arinze Obiwenite, their father who defiled his daughter.

 

This she did during a raid in Abacha town, Idemili North council area of the state upon a tip off from a whistle blower.

 

Embarking on the raid, the Women and Social Welfare Commissioner first paid a courtesy visit to the Traditional Ruler of Abacha, Igwe Nwabunwanne Odiegwu to notify him of her activities in his community before taking action.

 

It was during the visit that Igwe Odiegwu revealed that the alleged culprit by Arinze Obiwenite presented himself as a Christian who gives solution to people seeking for answers without knowing that he has other motives up his sleeve.

The traditional ruler explained that the town got to know of his illicit activities when he accused some young boys in the community of raping the daughter and was summoned to the palace on several occasions but failed to honor the royal invitation which he said prompted the youths of the community to troop to his residence but were utterly disappointed at what they saw at his house.

 

According to the Royal father, on getting to his house, they discovered that he locked up his children including the 12 year old who he alleged that some young men of the community had raped and when questioned, the daughter revealed that the father locked them up in the room for five years and that he always has carnal knowledge of her while he fingers the younger ones.

The traditional Prime Minister of the community, Chief Paul Omofia on his part explained that the youths after their findings wanted to take laws into their hands by burning the man alive but the traditional ruler intervened andtdisclosed that the ugly incident happened few weeks after their Ofala festival where they called on the gods of the land to expose any evil doer in the community.

 

A visit to where the children were kept , Honourable Obinabo after a physical examination of their condition, assured them of justice and a conducive environment for growth and proper care while she interrogated the alleged culprit Arinze Obiwenite who denied all the allegations leveled against him but was quick to ask the traditional ruler to forgive him and help find a way of resolving the issue without going to court, which Igwe Odiegwu refused.

During the visit to Obiwenite’s compound it was further discovered that he also uses diabolic means to run a ministry known as “Holy Trinity Healing Ministry”.

 

Some fetish items discovered in his house included a long list of paper where he wrote down names of people, a grave at his backyard where he admitted he stays to make his incantations if need be and some native medicines which he said were also diabolic.

 

Arinze Obiwenite has been arrested by the police and transferred to state criminal investigative department in Awka and was arraigned before the Children, Sexual and Gender Based Violence Magistrate court in Awka where he was remanded at the Correctional Centre Amawbia, while the 12 year old daughter has been taken to Hospital for medical examination and possible treatment.

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