pay the sum of 50.000 FCFA the matter would be reported to the police. He told PW2 that he would prefer that a complaint be lodged against him at the police station than to admit that he raped PW1 and pay the sum of 50.000 FCFA as compensation for his crime. He was taken to the quarter head’s compound where he repeated what he had said earlier that he would prefer the matter be reported to the police than to admit that he committed rape and pay the sum 50.000 FCFA to PW2. They left the Quarter-head’s compound for the police station of the Mobile Intervention Unit. On the way PW2 and his roommates told him they were compelled to make a complaint against him because of the attitude of a certain Chadian woman who was living in their compound. PW2 and her roommate complained that the Chadian woman was arrogant, disrespectful and stubborn. Under cross-examination he admitted that he made two cautioned statements to the police which are in evidence as exhibits ‘E’ and ‘E1’. He maintained that a complaint was made against him because he did not pay the sum of 50.000FCFA requested by PW2 and her roommate. Under re-examination he said the despute he had with PW2 stemmed from the fact that he refused to be PW2’s boyfriend and also refused to give her money. One Mongombe Ngeke, a retired state agent who is resident at Small Soppo testified as the first defence witness. He informed the court that he was a caretaker of the building where PW2 and the accused were tenants. According to this witness, in spite of the fact that PW2 and her children were living in a building in his care he met PW2 and her family for the first time when it was reported to him that a child had been raped in the said building. The evidence of this witness painted PW2 and her roommates as women living a lifestyle of squator and promiscuity. He had overheard the accused complaining to a Chadian woman living in his compound that PW2 and his friends wanted to seduce him. He wanted to resolve the dispute between the accused and PW2 concerning PW1 but PW2 and the father of PW1 insisted that the accused had to pay the sum of 4 million francs to them for the dispute to be settled amicably. The 2nd witness for the defence, Elizabeth Liengu, told the court that she was a seed maize producer resident at Small Soppo, Buea. Sometime in August, 2016 she was returning from Clerk’s Quarters when she met a woman who informed her that a child had been raped in the compound where the accused was living. The woman who informed her of the incident took her to the flat occupied by PW2, her friends and PW2’s children. She met two young women and three children in the flat. One of the young women pointed at a 6-year-old girl as the victim of the offence. She was informed that the offence was 5