A lecturer with the Lagos State University of Technology (formerly, Lagos State Polytechnic) has been remanded in the custody of Kirikiri Correctional Centre for allegedly defiling his 10-year-old daughter.

The yet-to-be-named lecturer was arraigned on a two-count charge bordering on defilement and sexual assault by penetration before Magistrate Bola Osunsanmi on Friday, February 3.

According to the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA), the lecturer was arrested after a tip-off from a Mandated Reporter on the allegation that he was having unlawful sexual intercourse with his biological daughter which was alleged to have started in 2018. 

The mother of the victim in her testimony revealed that her husband stopped being intimate with her in 2018 and whenever she tried to address it, it always resulted in him physically assaulting her. It was further gathered that the last abuse happened on the 30th of December, 2022. 

Magistrate Osunsanmi did not take his plea, and she ordered his remand at the Kirikiri Correctional Centre pending the Directorate of Public Prosecution's legal advice. The case was adjourned till March 6, 2023.