by Chinwe Okafor

Cyprian Edundu, 38, has been arrested by the police for allegedly raping a nine -year-old girl.

According to reports by Punch, he had lured the girl to his room sometime in October 2014 and allegedly raped her, warning the girl not to inform anybody.

Well she would have but not when it happened the second time. She reportedly told her mother when Edundu tricked him into his room and attempted to rape her the second time.

The enraged mother, Amaka, reported the incident at the Ojo Police Station and Edundu was arrested.

Edundu, in a statement he made to the police, denied the allegation, claiming that he only sent the girl on an errand. He said there was a relationship between him and Amaka, adding that the woman used to send the girl to him whenever she needed money.

He said, “I merely sent her (the victim) on an errand. I didn’t rape her. Amaka, her husband and I are very close. One day she (Amaka) came to my room half-naked, asking for money. She seduced me one morning when she needed N5,000. That was the first time we had sex. She sent her daughter to me whenever she needed something.”

Amaka, however, refuted having extramarital affair with the suspect, but she admitted that she usually borrowed money from him.

She said, “I never went out with him (Edundu). Yes, I collected N5,000 from him, but I paid him back. The first money I got from him was N1,000. He is just a neighbour to me and nothing else.”

Ada Igboanugo