…As Semen leakage cause of impotency in men- Sexologist***
A mother (name withheld) on Monday told an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court that her two-year-old daughter (name withheld) was defiled by Afeez Balogun, the 27-year-old bus driver of her school in Lagos.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the mother made the revelation while testifying as the first witness for the prosecution during Balogun’s trial for allegedly defiling the child in the premises of the school.
While being led in evidence by Mrs Fehinti Ogbemudia, the prosecution counsel, the mother said that the defendant was a school bus driver for Holbrook School, Gbagada Lagos, her daughter’s former school.
She noted that the alleged defilement occurred in 2018 when the complainant was two-years-old.
“He (Balogun) was the bus driver for my daughter’s former school called Holbrook Schools located at Gbagada. My daughter is currently three years and 11-months old and she is currently in Nursery one.
“On July 5, 2018, my daughter woke up to ease herself at around 12.30am and while she was easing herself, she was crying and her terminology then was that ‘my bum-bum is paining me’.
“I tried to find out what the problem was and I took her to the bedroom and my husband and I asked her some questions and I asked her if anyone had hurt her bum-bum and she said yes,” the mother said.
She told the court that she went to the school with her daughter that morning and informed the school’s administrators about the development.
“At the school, they brought all the male staff and she (the complainant) was asked to identify who had hurt her and she identified Mr Afeez Balogun by running straight to him.
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” That was the first time she identified him,” she said.
The witness told the court that that morning after leaving the school; she went to the Office of the Public Defender (OPD) with her daughter where an officer was assigned to their case.
She said her daughter was asked for the second time at the OPD who had defiled her and she again identified the defendant.
The mother said that they were referred further from OPD to the Mirabel Center, a sexual assault referral facility located at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH).
“At Mirabel Center, some doctors examined her and they identified bruises and they said there were signs of forced entry in her private part,” he said.
The mother also told the court that at the Gender Unit of the Ikeja Command of the Nigeria Police Force, her daughter for the third time positively identified Balogun in a police lineup.
She said that the defendant was also taken to Pedro Police Station where another police lineup was conducted.
“At Pedro Police Station, she again pointed at Mr Afeez Balogun making it four times that she identified him as the person who hurt her. That was when he was arrested,” the mother said.
While being cross-examined by Mr Quddus Mumuni, the defence counsel, the mother informed the court that the medical tests conducted on her daughter had revealed that there were fresh and old bruises on her daughter’s private part.
She also said when she was questioning her daughter about who allegedly defiled her, her daughter due to her young age, had referred to the defendant as Mr Wale, another teacher at the school.
“The defendant is not Mr Wale but she referred to him as Mr Wale several times. I also did not ask my daughter questions at the various identity parades,” she said.
According to the prosecution counsel, the defendant committed the alleged offence in July 2018 at Holbrook Crèche Nursery and Primary School, Pedro, Gbagada, Lagos.
“Balogun defiled the complainant, who was two-years-old at the time by having unlawful sexual intercourse with her,” Ogbemudia had said.
According to her, the offence contravenes Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 which recommends a life sentence for any individual found guilty of defiling a minor.
Justice Abiola Soladoye adjourned the case till Nov. 20 for continuation of the cross-examination of the witness while the defendant remained in prison custody.
In the meantime, an Abuja-based Sex Therapist, Mrs Hauwa Tayyib, has identified leakage of semen as one of the lead cause of impotency in men.
Tayyib, who disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Monday in Abuja, said that frequent leakage of semen could cause impotency, low semen volume and lesser number of sperms in male of any age.
Semen leakage occurs when semen seeps out of the penis.
Semen is a whitish fluid that contains sperm and it usually leaks out during sexual activity, regardless of whether ejaculation occurs.
The sexologist said that semen leakage was one of the commonly occurring male sexual disorders.
She also said that excessive masturbation was another factor that could contribute to the leakage of semen.
She said that the condition was embarrassing and could also cause several health issues.
Tayyib explained that semen leakage in urine was triggered by weak genital passage nerves, enlarged or swollen prostate, bad habits like alcoholism, weak bladder sphincter and poor blood sugar levels.
Other causes, she said, were retrograde ejaculation, side-effects of medicines, infections and surgeries on reproductive parts.
She said that the leakage also led to fatigue, back pain, hair loss, pain in the testicles, pelvic cavity cramps and a burning sensation after urination.
According to her, it may also result in some unpleasant sexual disorders such as premature ejaculation, weak erection and sexual weakness.
The sex therapist explained that impotency could be classified into two types, erectile dysfunction and interference with conception.
“Males not able to produce children may not see or show any signs of weakness and are capable of having intercourse.
“They are impotent because they do not possess ability to fertilize a woman’s egg and cause conception.
“Semen leakage can cause both type of impotency in male of any age. A regular loss of semen strains entire reproductive system including prostate and testicles,” she explained.
Tayyib added that a regular loss of semen could also cause damaged or deformed sperms incapable of fertilizing a woman’s eggs.
“A man who has semen leakage problem suffers with low testosterone level that makes reproductive system sluggish and weak.
“A man with low testosterone level suffers with low libido and lesser drive for love making.
“All these issues stop a male from gaining arousal and quick erection in bed, and even caused weak, softer or no erection, which are all types of impotency,” she said.
Tayyib noted that the problem of regular semen leakage was highly debilitating and affected reproductive system and male’s health negatively.
“This problem should be treated without delay to avoid impotency and other serious sexual dysfunctions,” she advised.
