Seventeen-year-old Beninoise woman, Abiodun Ojo,
who killed her husband, Jimoh, in the Makoko area of Yaba, Lagos State, has
said she poisoned her husband because she hated him.
Abiodun, during an interview with PUNCH Metro,
blamed her father for forcing her to marry Jimoh, who she said never took care
of her.
She said she had run away from the deceased three
times, and was sent back by her father, who she described as the architect of
her problem.
PUNCH Metro had reported that Abiodun
had been handed over to Jimoh as wife by her father to stop her from marrying
her boyfriend.
She was said to have given birth to a baby girl,
Hannah, and was living with the victim in their home on Apolo Street, Makoko.
However, she was said to have met her former
boyfriend’s elder brother, Wensu, who allegedly gave her the poison to put in
Jimoh’s drink so she could marry his younger brother.
Our correspondent reported that Jimoh, a
carpenter, who was retarded, had returned home from work on June 19, 2015 when
his wife poured the poison into his soft drink and forced him to drink it.
The deceased was said to have collapsed and died
despite spirited efforts by residents to resuscitate him.
Abiodun, who initially denied involvement in the
crime, later confessed to community leaders, saying she was given the poison by
her former boyfriend’s elder brother, Wensu.
The two suspects were said to have been arrested
by policemen from the Adekunle Police Division and were subsequently
transferred to the State Department of Criminal Investigation.
Abiodun said she never knew the poison would kill
Jimoh.
She said, “I was born in Lagos, though I am from
Cotonou, Benin Republic. My father married two wives and he had nine children.
My mother had six children for him and I am number four. I did not go to school
because my father did not allow me.
“I had a boyfriend, Papa, whom I dated for two
years. I wanted to marry him, but my father refused because my elder sister was
married to Papa’s brother.
“I was at home one day when my father brought
some people and said I should look at all of them and say if I liked them, and
I said yes. He then asked me to go. It was the next day that they took me to
Jimoh.”
She said she was taken to a community in Ogun
State, where the victim usually came to make love with her until she became
pregnant.
She said when she returned to Lagos, she was not
well treated by the deceased and she complained to her family members, who
asked her to endure the hardship.
“On three different occasions, I ran away from
home. But whenever I got home, my father would ask me to go back, saying
marriage was always full of challenges.
“On the fateful day, I went to the market to buy
fish for my sister-in-law when I saw Wensu on the road. He gave me the poison
and said I should put it in my husband’s drink. I put it in his drink and he
took it himself,” she added.
She said she regretted marrying the deceased
because she never loved him.
It was learnt that the boyfriend, Papa, had
travelled back to the Benin Republic.
His elder brother, Wensu, a herbalist, denied
giving Abiodun the poison, saying she framed him up.
He said, “I am a herbalist by profession and I
was taught the job by my grandfather in the Benin Republic when I was a child.
I met her sister in the community and we married legally. She had three kids
for me.
“But when I married another woman, she divorced
me and married somebody else. I did not give her any poison and I have never
met her husband, Jimoh, in my entire life. She is lying.”
The Police Public Relations Officer, Kenneth
Nwosu, said the suspects would soon be charged to court
Source:Punch
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