The Edo State Government has revealed that 50 per cent of the over 70 cases of incestuous defilement recorded between January and July 2026 in the state were perpetrated by the fathers against their daughters.
The revelation was made on Thursday by the state Commissioner of Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Eugenia Abdallah, who lamented that the female victims were minors between the ages of two and 10.
She spoke during the bi-monthly press conference organised by the state Ministry of Information and Strategy, saying it was discovered that one of victims was impregnated by her father. The girl in question, she noted was barely 14 years old.
According to her, “Mostly, 50 per cent are abused by their own fathers, with the victims ranging from two to 10 years. For instance, there is a little girl currently in our custody who was impregnated by her father. She is just 14 years old and is eight months pregnant as we speak. The case was reported to us by a neighbour.
“When we asked her about her father, she told us that she had lost her father and pleaded with us not to have him arrested. Meanwhile, she is the only person who can tell us where her father is,” she lamented.
The Commissioner, however, assured that the state government was committed to ensuring that vulnerable citizens were not merely identified but protected.
“Survivors are not merely heard but supported; women are not merely trained but provided opportunities for economic advancement; and social protection programmes increasingly produce measurable outcomes,” Abdallah said.
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