The PW1 informed this court that his wife did not tell him that she
saw the accused having sexual intercourse with his daughter; he
did not also see the accused sleeping with his daughter. That it
was the people living in the compound that confronted the
accused person, including himself. PW2 stated that the accused
person confessed to them (co-tenants) that he had sex with his
daughter.
No re-examination, PW2 was discharged.
The PW3 is Emmanuella Bam Eko, the victim herself.
In her
evidence-in-chief, she stated that in 2014 in the night her step
mother went to the market and her dad asked her brothers to go
to stream and fetch water and she asked her Dad whether she
can follow them, he said no.
PW3 further stated that when her brothers had gone to the
stream, she went back to bed and her Dad went and shut the
door and came down to her bed and pull off her cloth; she asked
him what he was doing and he said nothing and she started
crying and he had sex with her that night.
PW3 procee3ded to state that in the morning, the following day,
she went and took her bath and wanted to go to school and the
Dad asked her to wait by then her brothers have gone to school.
The Dad said that he wants to give her something and she told
him that she cannot wait. The Dad then lock the door and asked
her to lay down and she refused and he pushed her on the bed
and he tore the pant she was wearing and he had sex with her.
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