19-year-old pleads against father’s imprisonment after alleging years of sexual abuse

A 19-year-old woman, identified as Ugo Rejoice, has pleaded against the imprisonment of her father, Uche Didie, after accusing him of sexually abusing her over several years in Lagos.

Ugo said the alleged abuse began in 2019, when she was 12, and continued until she opened up about it on September 6, 2026.

She alleged that the incidents occurred once or twice a month and that her father warned her against speaking about them.

“He has been having sexual intercourse with me since 2019. I have never had a boyfriend. My dad is the only man who has had carnal knowledge of me,” she said.

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According to her, Didie forced himself on her and threatened to beat her whenever she considered telling someone.

“He did not convince me; he forced himself on me. He always asked me not to tell anyone and said he would beat me if I told anybody. Sometimes, he also bought me gifts,” she said.

Ugo said her mother was previously informed about the alleged abuse and confronted Didie, but he denied the allegation.

She eventually told a close friend, who is the son of their pastor. The matter was then brought to the pastor’s attention.

Didie was arrested by members of the OPC and handed over to the Police Tactical Unit in Araro, Ikorodu.

He was later transferred to the Gender Unit headed by ACP Oluwatoyin Kazeem.

Although Ugo said she wanted the alleged abuse to end, she said she was not seeking her father’s imprisonment because of the possible effect on the family.

“I know the best thing is for my dad to be arrested, but that’s not what I want because I don’t want it to affect our future. I’m his second child, and there are three of us, two girls and one boy,” she said.

She said she would rather leave her parents’ home and stay with her grandmother in Agege or her aunt in Egbeda.

“I wanted it to stop, I want him to be released, but I will stop staying with my parents. I will go to my grandmother in Agege or my aunt in Egbeda,” she said.

Didie, however, gave a different account in a video, disputing Ugo’s claim that the alleged abuse started in 2019.

He claimed that what she alleged only began in 2026.

“Na this year I start dey do am, na this year I start dey fuck am, my daughter Rejoice. The time wey the mama ask me that time, e never dey happen,” he said.

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