Comfort Peter speaks to journalists at the Press Centre, Bauchi
By Akanji Alowolodu, Bauchi
A 23-year-old lady, Comfort Peter is seeking for justice after a serving Soldier attached to the Biu Military Regiment in Borno State, one Sergeant Julius Simon who allegedly impregnated and abandoned her making himself now incommunicado.
While narrating her ordeal to Journalists at the NUJ Press Center on Thursday, Comfort said that, “We met in April, 2018 when he was on a special assignment at the DIC plant in Bauchi where I was assisting a food vendor and he approached me that he was in love with me”.
She added that, “I told my Madam about it but she warned me against it. Julius kept disturbing me and when I told my Madam, she said that I should tell him to go to my house and see my parents if he actually loves me. I told him what my Madam told me and he agreed to come to our house”.
Amidst sobbing and tears rolling down her cheek, she said that, “He actually came to our house, met my father and declared his intention to marry me. My father asked him several questions which he answered and my father reluctantly agreed telling him to bring his people for introduction”.
Comfort Peter narrated further that, “One evening in August 2018, he called to tell me that they will be leaving Bauchi back to Biu having completed the assignment. He then asked me to come over to Shadawanka Barracks to see him so that we will discuss before he will leave the next day”.
“I went to the Barracks as he directed, he took me to the house of one of his friends and slept with me all night. He was the person who disvirgin me, he was so excited that he met me as a virgin promising that he will definitely marry me. I didn’t know that it was a fake love he displayed “, she added crying.
According to her, all efforts to get him has proved abortive as he has stopped using the phone number he gave her saying,”I informed him that I was pregnant and he assured me that he was coming but when I did not see him, I traveled to Biu to see him, he apologized for not coming as promised because he said that he was busy in the bush”.
“I also went back to Biu with my Uncle when the pregnancy was 7 months old, he also apologized to my Uncle and promised again to come with his family to formalize the marriage. We came back to Bauchi but he refused to come as promised. I delivered a baby in June 2019, I told him but has refused to come to see the boy who is 2 years 3 months now”, Comfort Peter said crying.
Comfort, who could not stop crying, said that she regretted going out with Julius’.’How can you treat someone that you said you love like this’? Comfort said Julius has cheated her. I want justice. Let him come and be a father to his son because the boy is two years now and already he has started asking for his father. Julius’ was the one that disvirgined me.He promised to marry me but deceived me..I will never love or trust any man again but he must take care of his son”.
Comfort, who came in company with her father, retired Assistant Superintendent of Police, called on the military authority to fish him out and make him responsible to his son saying, ‘As for me, l no longer love him. I have forgiven him but won’t marry him again,’.
Effort to get the Military authority in Bauchi to react to the allegation proved abortive as an officer who spoke to our Correspondent pleading anonymous advised that she goes back to the unit where the Soldier is serving to lodge an official complaint.
