EVIL HUSBAND
•Man throws 7-year-old girl in lagoon, fingers
wife in the conspiracy
•I didn’t have hand in it –Woman
By CHRISTOPHER OJI
Thursday, April
10, 2008
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•Safiatu
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People, including policemen who gathered at the Lagos State
police command headquarters, Ikeja, recently, could not control
their emotions as a man narrated how he and his wife conspired
to throw a seven-year-old girl into the lagoon.
The man, who gave his name as Idowu Adeyinka, confessed telling
his wife, Safiatu, that the only condition for continuing
living with her as his wife was to kill the child.
Giving a graphic account of why and how the seven-year old
Wunmi was thrown into the lagoon, Adeyinka said: “I
got married to my wife 15 years ago.
She had a child for me but I was shocked one day when she
bade me goodbye without any provocation. I was hoping that
she would come back home, but I was devastated when she got
married to another man. I forgot about her”.
He revealed that few years later, his wife returned home.
He said: “I wanted to throw her out, but my sister begged
that I should pardon her, which I did, but she came back with
Wunmi , a child by another man.
“I was not happy seeing her(Wunmi) in my house. I was
not happy with her because of the pains the father inflicted
on me. Moreso, she was always in her mother’s company,
day and night. I did not have the chance of making love to
my wife. So, I gave my wife the condition that except she
returned Wunmi to her father, I would not accept her as my
wife.”
“It was then that we decided that the only option was
for Wunmi to die. We took her to the Third Mainland bridge
and threw her into the lagoon.”
On how he felt throwing human being into the lagoon, he said:
“I felt bad, but I had no other alternative because
each time I saw her (Wunmi), it reminds me of my misery.”
However, his wife denied taking part in Wunmi’s death.
She said: “All he said was that I left him for another
man which is true. I later came back and I had Wunmi for another
man. What is not true is that I knew he was going to kill
my daughter. In fact, I carried her pregnancy for nine months
so, it won’t be possible for me to kill a grown-up daughter
of mine.”
Safiatu explained that her husband actually warned her to
return Wunmi to her father, adding that when she considered
his wickedness, she decided to make an alternative arrangement.
She said: “While I was making arrangements on where
to take her, my husband killed her.”
“I swear to God, I did not have hands in the death of
Wunmi. I came back from the market and didn’t see her,
so, I told him that we should report to the police but he
refused. Few days later, I narrated my ordeal to a neighbour
who accompanied me to a police station in Ikotun, where I
reported the case.
“My husband was arrested.
He is just trying to rope me in, so that I can suffer the
same fate with him.”
However, the state police spokesman, Frank Mba, a Deputy Superintendent
of Police, who described the couple as wicked and shameless,
said they would be charged to court for conspiracy and murder,
adding: “We are still searching for the corpse of the
deceased.”
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