On the 13th of April, we published the story of a 17-year old girl who was defiled at age 7, and who had to speak out to CRACO after 10 years of keeping the abuse to herself and suffering the emotional trauma. Hear her story once again:
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“Growing up we knew him as uncle Kabiru. He wasn’t related to us but he was very close to the family and he live really close to our place in Gwagwalada Abuja. He visited sometimes but my mom never allowed me to go anywhere alone most especially his house, my senior brother who was two years older always tagged along. On this faithful day my mom went to pick up a visitor and she asked us to stay at home so my brother suggested that we visited Uncle Kabiru, so we went over. While we were there he asked us to wash his plate so my brother who was so eager to try and cook for the first time since mom wasn’t around left and told me to stay over and wash the plates.

When I was done I took it inside his room and he just closed the door behind me and laid me down on the bed, am not going into details here but after that it happened frequently. And when he was done he always gave me money and so I kept going back. When I was between 10/11 we left Gwagwalada and that’s how it ended. But growing up, everything came, guilt, shame, hate ( mostly directed at myself). I kept thinking I allowed all of this and that it was my fault, I kept going back, so perhaps it was because I wanted it. And all the thoughts about suicide and all that. I have
never told anyone not even my friends.

So recently I came across your page on Facebook and it brought everything back, but this time I began to think, what if he hadn’t stop and he is still doing it to other girls. Once when I was 13 and I had just opened my fb account I found him there and he was still the same, saying he missed me and all that so I unfriended him. When I thought of reporting him I tried to find him on fb again but I couldn’t so I took my dad’s phone and I got him number.

He told me he wanted to meet me and that I should come over and I told him I couldn’t so he said he will come over to ….. here where I lived and that I should look for a hotel around me where we can meet for two days…”
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Now, the issue is that this man has since then continued to disturb and sexually molest this girl thereby compounding her emotional problem and re-opening the wound the young girl is trying to heal for years. Even till this very week, the girl reported he still kept disturbing her.

We have been able to identify this man, and wanted to get him arrested and charged to court to answer for his crime, but the young girl pleaded that she does not want him arrested, but only want to make him stay away from her, and also seek to protect other children as she believes he must still be sexually abusing other innocent children till today.

We however want to respect the wish of this young girl for now until we are able to make her see reason to take further action, because there is little we can do without her cooperation; but we must take a step to ensure this young man is cautioned. He is the person in this photo, and his face book name is Kelvin N Ogbaje. Naming and shaming is a deterrence measure. Please those who know him should caution him. He is now on our watchlist. If we get another report of his sexual molestation of this particular young girl, or any other girl, we will have no other option than to take every possible step to get him arrested, and charged to court. We have sufficient evidence against him in respect of this particular case. #EndOnlineSexualViolenceAgainstChildren