IPNEWS – Monrovia: Mr. Nat Bayjay, the Minister Counselor for Press and Public Affairs, at Liberia’s Embassy in Abuja, the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is pleading with President George Manneh Weah to help intervene in catering medically for his eight-year-old baby, who he said was sexually abused on the premises of the embassy.
Addressing a press conference, Bayjay, who is a journalist himself, said, “One of my daughters, aged just 7 at the time, was unfortunately sexually abused over a period of seven months by not one but two different perpetrators. These rapists not once, not twice but multiple times over a period of seven months abused my daughter right on the premises of the Liberian Embassy in Abuja. These two perpetrators themselves were under the guidance of a colleague diplomat also assigned at the Abuja Mission, who himself up to today’s date shows no remorse for the acts carried out by his wards against my baby.”
Bayjay, who said he’s in Liberia for the last months seeking the attention of the President to this grave situation, further stated that while the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Information, and Justice have taken steps to forward the matter to court following his insistence, it is not enough in helping to cater to the welfare of his abused child.
“While I’m in Monrovia for the past two months to pursue the justice aspect to this matter, I keep getting calls from my family over our young daughter’s declining health back in Abuja, costing her to miss out on school several days. As we are aware of the long process of litigation, why can’t cater to the welfare of this innocent child solely on humanitarian grounds? Why if this litigation lingers for a year, we the family remains the only one to be going through the financial stress of her health which is already in a poor state?”
From all indications from Minister Counselor Bayjay’s statement, he knows the alleged perpetrators but didn’t name them in his statement.
After his press conference earlier on Monday, December 6, he posted this on his Facebook page to further show how bruised him and his family are over the condition of their daughter.
Nat_Bayjay_Press_Statement can be read here.
