“After drinking on that fateful evening, there was a heavy downpour and I could not resist the urge for sex; so, I had to use a local pistol to threaten my mother to submission and I later raped her.”
These are the words of Imo State-based Paul Ihuaku, a man arrested by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Imo State Command, for raping his mother.
The 45-year-old, who hails from Umueke Ezagbogu in the Ezinihitte Mbaise Local Government Area of the state, is said to be unmarried, with the mother noting that he had raped her twice.
According to the Commandant of the NSCDC, Mr Raji Ibrahim, the suspect was arrested by the operatives of the corps following a tip-off.
Ihuaku confessed to journalists that he was not married yet as he did not have any job.
“I was not bewitched. I was under the influence of alcohol,” he said.
Narrating the incident that took place in the house she lives with Ihuaku, the mother said, “I was in the kitchen and saw him (Ihuaku) with a pistol. He used it to threaten me. He told me that he would kill me. I could not do anything other than to beg him to drop the gun.
“It was in the process that he threw me on the ground and it (rape) happened.
“I had to call on the youth the next morning, as the incident happened when it was already dark and damp. The youth later went to the NSCDC headquarters in Itu to report him, hence his arrest.”
