Mr Adebisi Arewa, a parent who accused a private school teacher, Adewale Bakare, of sexually abusing his nine-year-old daughter has given reasons why his daughter shunned forensic interviews.had reported that Bakare’s lawyer, Toyin Taiwo-Ojo, had during a protest at the Lagos State Police Command Headquarters complained that Arewa refused to produce his daughter for forensic interviews.
The lawyer had alleged that Arewa did that to obstruct the cause of justice and to ensure that Bakare stayed longer in Kirikiri prison where he’s being remanded. But Arewa claimed the teacher’s family, school, non-governmental organisations and former students are spreading false information about him and his daughters.
According to him, some forces want to “detain my ward pursuant to taking them into the custody of the state government”. Arewa said, “The survivor has been subjected to numerous ‘forensic interviews’ everywhere I was directed to take her, without my consent, beginning from Mirabel Centre and Domestic Violence Unit of the Lagos State Ministry of Justice; Ilupeju Division of the Nigerian Police Force and the Gender Unit of the Lagos State Police Command.