TVC E.( LAGOS ): Blessing Nwokpa 19, alleged that she had been impregnated and abandoned by an operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) her lover.
Blessing claimed the operative took advantage of her because she was homelessness.
News reaching us says, Blessing Nwokpa was working as a canteen attendant at the Awolowo Road, Ikoyi office of EFCC, where she met him and they started a relationship.
Read her story:
“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.
“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,” adding that she was sacked at the canteen because of her pregnancy.
Legal Aids intervenes
She was reportedly directed to the Legal Aids Council where she lodged the complaint.
Blessing Nwokpa is currently in the custody of the Legal Aids Council,
She said all she needed was for the EFCC operative to take responsibility of the pregnancy and not necessarily to marry her.
Efforts to reach the EFCC officer on his mobile phone failed as it was switched off.
