By Izunna Okafor, Awka
The Anambra State Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare, Hon. Ify Obinabo, has expressed disgust over the rising cases of fathers s£xually abusing their own daughters in the state, describing that as horrifying, unnatural, and completely unacceptable.
Speaking in Awka, the Commissioner lamented that the majority of the rape cases currently being handled by her Ministry involve fathers violating their biological or adopted daughters, an act she described as both morally and psychologically disturbing.
Visibly enraged by the trend, Mrs. Obinabo threw a series of rhetorical questions to men, challenging them to provide just one reasonable explanation for such an abominable act.
“I want to know what will make you, as a father (even if you are not the biological father of that child but the adoptive one) to look at your daughter and develop s£xual feelings for her,” she queried.
“Tell me, what will make a man begin to have such thoughts? I am confused. Why? How? Just give me one reason, and I will be fine. One reason.”
The Commissioner, who is known for her uncompromising stance against gender-based violence and child abuse, wondered how any man could even derive pleasure from defiling his own daughter, the same child he gave birth to and nurtured from infancy.
“How can you, as a father, look at your daughter, the one you gave birth to, and begin to lust after her? Is it that you are sick psychologically? Is it that you are a ritualist? Or is it that you have lost all self-control? Why? How? What kind of mind does such a man have?” she furiously asked, visibly distressed.
Reports have it that the Anambra State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Welfare had been inundated with distressing reports and petitions of fathers repeatedly raping their own daughters, most of whom are minors, often threatening or manipulating them into silence.
The Ministry has also continued to reiterate the government’s commitment to ensure that any man found guilty of such a heinous act faces the full wrath of the law without compromise, emphasizing that such crimes are not only against the victims and their families but also against God and humanity at large.
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