A Nigerien national, Danladi Ousman, cannot stand the sight and the beauty of his beautiful teenage girls being chased by others. The lust for the beautiful contour bodies of his teen-girls has driven him to abandon his fatherly role to assume, albeit forcefully, the monstrous posture of a lover-boy of the girls. Ousman is coal-tar dealer at the Timber Market in Accra.
An old pix of Danladi Ousman
The mother of the children, Madam Mary Adetsu, is not around to protect the poor girls. The poor woman is roaming in the streets of Accra with mental sickness which, the paper’s investigations established, was as a result of battery and other forms of maltreatments by Ousman, the husband.
But Ousman denied the allegations and threatened to deal ruthlessly with his children. According to him, he knows where the children live and will surely get at them “and deal with them.” He issued the threat in a telephone interview.
Ousman’s glutton sex drive, the girls told Today, had on numerous occasions driven him to sleep with them at certain periods, during their teen ages. Unlike other similar tales, where victims out of fear give in to their sex-mad fathers, the young girls said they resisted their father’s advances, but that came at a great cost.
The first victim, Fati, 19, left the father when she was 15, and for the past four years, had been living with a maternal auntie at Asoredanho, near Dansoman in Accra. Fati dropped out of school within that period and is currently a sewing-apprentice with her auntie.
The next in line for the father’s hip exercise is Aisha, 17, who also said she left the father under similar circumstances. Aisha is staying with another of her maternal aunties at Abossey Okai in Accra, where she is continuing with her education.
The latest to fall prey to Ousman’s sex drive, according to the girls, is little Miriam or Merle, 15, who told Today that she had being resisting the father’s sex overtures since she turned 12. Her father’s advances has virtually reduced poor Merle into a timid sort; so scared of her age-group male friends.
Merle abandoned the warmth of her father’s bedroom to put up with a tenant in their compound house. Like her other siblings who “disobeyed” their father, Merle is given stern orders by the father not to stay with the tenant. Indeed, she has been ordered by Ousman to leave their Asafoatse Nettey Road Palledium Down residence in Accra.
Although for close to three years, Merle had leaved with the ordeal, she decided to go open when the father’s sex advances on her became so insatiable that she thought other tenants of the house should know about her plight.
“I told Mr Nyarko, a co-tenant in our house, about my father’s sexual advances and he decided to take custody of me,” a sobbing Merle told Today. The action of the young girl infuriated the father to the extent that he asked her to leave the house on Monday, February 8, 2010.
Tenant Nyarko was not spared of Ousman’s anger. Ousman threatened to deal with him if he kept his daughter in his custody. As at last Wednesday, their elder sister, Ramatu had whisked away poor Merle to live with her at Russia, a suburb of Accra.
But Ousman would not take any of the accusations being levelled against him by his children, describing them as untrue. In corrupted Pidgin English, Ousman retorted in a telephone interview, “I take care of them for 9 years when dem mother leave me and now as dem grow up dem tink sey they go fit go round to spoil me.”
It is loosely translated that “I took care of them for nine years and now that they are grown-ups they think they can go around and destroy me with such lies.”
Ousman believed his children were being forced to make those false allegations, adding that “I know where dem dey and I will find them and deal with them.
“I be Muslim, and above these things. Ebe sad that they will turn around and make these allegations against me”, Ousman swore by his religious faith.
Three other teenage girls of the family, Sophie 13, Suweba 11 and the only boy of the Ousmans, Mohammed, are however still living with their father.
The eldest daughter, Ramatu, 22, told Today that she did not experience such treatment from her father because she left their family home when she was 12.
“It was a time that our father had started maltreating us and our mother. I had to move and live with my auntie who saw me through my JHS and SHS education,” Ramatu narrated.
According to her, the auntie could not extend the same help to her younger sister, Fati because “her finances were too weak to support another member of our family.”
She, however, disclosed that her younger siblings reported the behaviour of their father to her and other members of their maternal and paternal families. Although she conceded that the stories initially seemed too chilling to believe, the persistency with which her other sisters came to report of similar ordeal at the hands of their father made her believed them.
Other family members, especially their paternal uncles, Ramatu disclosed, made futile attempts to resolve the issue because the father would not acquiesce to any family settlement of the issue and often threatened to deal with any member of the family who dared to raise the issue.
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