“Please Give Me A Second Chance, I Don’t Deserve To Be A Father” — Lugbe Money-Lender Begs After Allegedly Raping Widow Over N30,000 Interest

A tearful suspect, Ahmed Usman, also known as Usman Mohammed, broke down before journalists in Abuja, begging the whole world to forgive him after he was arrested for allegedly loaning N600,000 to a widow and sexually assaulting her over weekly interest.

“Please let me have a second chance. I will be the best father and the best citizen of this country, please,” he pleaded at the start of the parade.

“I’m very sorry to my children and my wife. To the whole world. Please, let me have a second chance. I’ll be the best father and the best citizen of this country please. I’m so sorry to put my wife into this, my… my children,” he added.

When asked by the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, if what he did was a good thing, he replied:

“It’s not, it’s not, it’s not, please. Please.”

“I regret everything, I regret everything. Actually, but I regret being… in fact I don’t deserve to be a father, not to become a citizen of this country because I’m a shame [to] my career, my level,” he said.

The suspect, who said he is from Toto Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, told the police he is married with six children.

But before his plea for forgiveness, SP Adeh had briefed the press on what she described as a sad and very disturbing incident that happened in Lugbe.

“Today, I’m here again with another sad and very disturbing incident that happened somewhere in Lugbe. The man behind me is a suspect of kidnapping and actual assault of widows,” she said.

“He specializes in loaning money to widows and vulnerable women,” she added.

SP Adeh said on November 5, officers of the Lugbe Division received a complaint, tracked the man and arrested him. During the arrest, he allegedly zoomed off with one of the officers in his car.

“In the process of our arresting, he was… he even zoomed off with one of our officers in [the car], but we were able to arrest him,” she said.

She explained that the suspect targets vulnerable women and widows, loans them money, and then asks them to pay interest weekly, separate from the principal.

In the case that led to his arrest, he loaned N600,000 to the victim, to be paying N30,000 interest every week, aside from the N600,000.

“So, on this fateful day, last week, she missed her usual weekly payment because market was bad and she didn’t have up to 30,000. So the man called her to come. She went there to go and give him this 24,000 that she has,” SP Adeh said.

According to the police, the man then pushed her into his vehicle, threatened her with a knife, and drove her to a very lonely area behind the Chief’s Palace in Lugbe.

“There he forcefully had carnal knowledge of her. He first and foremost asked her to pull off her clothes which he did. He stripped her naked and then he had… he sexually assaulted her,” SP Adeh said.

She said after assaulting her, he threatened that if she did not give him his money, he would kill her. Out of fear, the woman went to look for the money, sent it to him, and later summoned courage to report at the police station.

When SP Adeh asked the suspect to explain what happened, he confessed:

“What really happened, there’s a woman I loaned money 600,000.”

“I loaned money, I loan money to women. So, this specific woman, she took loan from me 600,000. Normally she used to pay 30,000 weekly. And [when] she default to pay, I called her and invite her over. She came to my car which I take her to [a] lonely place and I asked her to take off her dress. So, after videoing her, and I make love to her,” he said.

When asked how he videoed her, he said he forced her to undress and filmed her.

He also admitted to zooming off with the DPO during the arrest.

“So, when the police came after me, so I was scared. I have to zoom [off] with the DPO.”

“Inside my car. I take off with the DPO inside my car… But listen, listen, when I found out that it was [the] DPO, I have to go and make [a] U-turn, I bring him back and drop him. That’s what happened. But please, please, I want the whole world please, to forgive me,” he said.

SP Adeh told journalists that investigation is still ongoing and the Command is working in collaboration with FIDA to see how the suspect will be sent to prison.

“Investigation is still ongoing and we are working in collaboration with FIDA to see how we will send this man to prison for this,” she said.