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How EFCC Official Allegedly Impregnated & Abandoned Teenager Following Refusal to Abort

How EFCC Official Allegedly Impregnated & Abandoned Teenager Following Refusal to Abort

Blessing Nwokpa, a pregnant 19-year-old has alleged an operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) impregnated her and has now abandoned her after she refused to terminate the pregnancy. She also alleged that efforts to reach him earned her a beating from him at the commission’s office in Ikoyi, Lagos, recently.

According to the Vanguard, trouble started after Nwokpa who worked as a canteen attendant at the Awolowo Road, Ikoyi office of EFCC, had accommodation problem. She was compelled to be sleeping in the canteen, when her lover reportedly offered to give her shelter.

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The expectant mother said,

“I was staying with my brother when I left Enugu for Lagos. He found the canteen job for me.

At a point he had accommodation problem and I was sleeping in the canteen when the EFCC man said I could be sleeping in his house until my brother get another apartment.

I accepted without thinking of the impossible. But at night he would lure me into having sex with him until I became pregnant without knowing.

When I eventually discovered I was pregnant, I told him and his attitude towards me changed. He gave me N18,000 to abort the pregnancy but I refused. When he discovered I was still keeping the pregnancy, he started beating me and threw my things out of his apartment.

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He beat me to a pulp when I went to his office to request for money for ante-natal. Some of his senior colleagues rescued me.”

She added that she was sacked at the canteen because of her pregnancy. She was later directed to the Legal Aids Council where she lodged a complaint. However, attempts by the council to make peace between the duo failed as the EFCC officer did not honour their invitation.

Nwokpa said all she wants is for the EFCC operative to accept responsibility for the pregnancy and does not have to marry her.

Efforts to get the EFCC officer’s reaction failed as his mobile phone was switched off.

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