Father sleeps with two daughters in Lagos

A 52-year-old trader, Eze Chukwuma, who allegedly defiled his 17-year-old daughter, was on Thursday arraigned in an Ikeja Chief Magistrates' Court.

Chukwuma who resides at Iyana-Era area of Ijanikin, Lagos, is facing a count charge of defilement.

The prosecutor, Sergeant Raphael Donny, told the court that the defendant committed the offence sometimes in June 2016 at his residence.

Donny said that the defendant had been forcefully having carnal knowledge of his daughters since their mother, his wife, died in February 2008.

The victim said that their father usually have his way with her and her younger sister, after threatening to stab her and himself with a knife.