Residents of Kongoni in Lugari constituency are calling for the arrest of a man accused of defiling and impregnating his class seven daughter. 

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The man is also accused of assisting the girl to procure an abortion.

Emanuel Juma was implicated by the girl who said that he had been defiling her for a long time and threatened to kill her if she speaks out. 

The girl opened up after procuring an abortion and dumping the foetus in a pit latrine, claiming that the father bought her drugs to help her in terminating the pregnancy.

"He always held a knife anytime he was forcing me to sleep with him," the gild who said that the suspect always held a knife while defiling her was quoted by the Standard.

The incident was confirmed on Saturday by area chief Martin Kwenyi who said that a manhunt has been launched for Juma.

According to her mother, Rachel Chemel, her husband hid the truth from her.

Chemel said that her suspicions and attempts to find out the truth from the girl were always thwarted by the man who would turn hostile.

"I always suspected but anytime I tried to find out, the father would turn hostile forcing the child to remain quiet,” she said.

Locals are now calling for the immediate arrest of the suspect as well as the retrieval of the foetus from the latrine.

“We want the baby to be picked and the father to be arrested because the safety of our daughters is not guaranteed with the predator roaming around," Elizabeth Nafuna, a local, was quoted.