The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 32-year-old
bank worker, Olaoluwa Adejo, following the death of his 28-year-old wife,
Maureen.
The incident happened at their home on Peluola Street,
Oworonshoki, in the Bariga area of the state.
Adejo, a Lagos indigene was alleged to have tortured his
wife of five years with a belt, as well as cutting her with a machete.
Their five-year- old son, Richard, in whose presence the
incident reportedly happened, told Punch that his father also forced a local insecticide,
otapiapia, down the throat of his mother.
“I am Richard Adejo . I am five years old. My daddy beat my
mummy with a belt; machete her here (shows arms ), machete her here
(shows legs ).
“He used the belt on her here
(points at face); forced my mummy to drink otapiapia
(insecticide). My daddy took my mummy away.
Also speaking with the newspaper, the victim’s mother, Mrs.
Kate Jonathan, said that the 5-year-old boy had given more graphic details of
the incident to family members, police authorities and officials of the Lagos
State Ministry of Justice.
She said, “I was called on the telephone by an unknown
number around 4 pm on Sunday, November 12. The caller said, ‘Your daughter’s
husband has killed her at Oworo’. He dropped the call.
“Around 5 pm when I got to their house, I discovered that
the house was locked up. There were two boys guarding the house and they
refused to open the door to me, saying the owner of the house instructed them
not to open the door.
“I didn’t see my daughter or her husband. I was begging them
to open the door when I saw Richard jumping up through the window. He saw me
and asked the boys to open the door , but they refused.
“I broke the louvers of the window.
“The boy climbed a stool and said from inside, ‘my father
has killed my mother and taken her away.’”
According to her, she rushed to the Oworonshoki Police
Station, where she was told that the suspect had already reported that his wife
committed suicide by taking local insecticide, Sniper.
Jonathan said after making her statement, she left the
station.
The suspected had already deposited the body of his wife in
the Gbagada General Hospital mortuary and had allegedly gone to obtain court
documents to enable him to bury her.
According to the report, he was asked to return to the
police station for a certain document, which led to his arrest based on his
mother – in – law’s complaint.
He has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation
and Intelligence Department, Yaba.
The police reportedly ordered the removal of the corpse from
the Gbagada General Hospital mortuary to the morgue of the Lagos State
University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja.
The couple had three children, namely, Richard, five; Henry,
three; and Omowunmi, six months.
However, 83-year-old mother of the suspect, Florence Adejo ,
also denied that her son murdered his wife.
She said, “He came to knock on the door of my house late
that night.
“He fell on the ground and started weeping and lamenting
that his wife had destroyed him.
“A crowd gathered in front of the house where I am the
landlady. They tried to console him. He said his wife took Sniper.”
The Lagos Police Public Relations Officer, SP Chike Oti,
told the newspaper that investigations were ongoing into the incident.
He said, “The man came to report that his wife committed
suicide.
“The DPO put some questions to him. We thought we should
investigate further to know what really happened because there are some doubts
we need to clear in the matter.
“The police are not accepting the claim of suicide hook,
line, and sinker.
“The matter is at the SCIID and investigations are ongoing.”
Wicked man!
They should feed him sniper too.
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