Strange!!!Woman abducts stepdaughter in Lagos,buries her in soakaway (Photo)
The
police in Lagos have arrested a woman, Aminat Akanni, for allegedly abducting
two of her stepchildren and murdering one of them because she claimed her
husband refused to provide Sallah clothes for her own son.
The
suspect killed one of the kids, Nofisat, by pushing her into a soakaway.Aminat
was arrested by the police at CMS Bus Stop, Lagos Island, on October 9.
Prior
to the arrest, seven-year-old Lateef and four-year-old Nofisat had been
declared missing on Friday, October 3- a day to the Sallah celebration.It was
learnt that the father of the missing children, Moshood Mubo, who is also the
suspect’s husband, had raised the alarm and reported the case to the Adeniji
Adele Police Division on Friday, October 3.
However,
after the suspect’s arrest, she confessed to have abducted the two kids from
Church Street, Lagos Island where they lived.She further confessed to have also
killed the younger, child, Nofisat, by pushing her into soakaway beside a
mosque in the Orile area.
Our
correspondent gathered that Lateef and Nofisat were pupils in Primary 1 and
Nursery 2 classes respectively in a private school.
Speaking
with PUNCH Metro on Sunday, Moshood who hails from Ilorin, Kwara State, said
his second wife, who he rented an apartment for in the Orile area, abducted the
kids claiming that she wanted to “punish him for not buying Sallah clothes for
her own son.”
He
said,
“I married Aminat in 2010. In order to avoid
a crisis at home, I rented an apartment for her at Mosalashi Street, Alakara in
Orile. She has only one son for me. His name is Yusuf. She does not come to
Church Street, Lagos Island where I live with my first wife.
“What happened was that on the evening of Friday,
October 3, when I returned from work- just a day to the Sallah celebrations- I
sent the two children to go buy biscuits in front of the street. That was
around 7pm. We expected them till around 9pm. I was shocked. I quickly rushed
to the Adeniji Adele Police Division, and reported the incident.
“Believe me, I and their mother, Funmilayo, could
not sleep all through that night. We were walking around throughout the night
from one police division to the other, repeating the same thing. The whole
Sallah celebration was a sad one as I looked for my two children. Little did I
know that it was my second wife who sneaked into our area to abduct them.”
Moshood,
who spoke to our correspondent while fighting back tears, added that Aminat had
called him the following day, and made a suspicious comment.He said,
“The following morning, around 11am, Aminat
called me and heard me crying on the phone. I told her that we were looking for
Lateef and Nofisat, she simply said, ‘All I know is that no one can kidnap my
own son.’ I was shocked at her statement, but I never thought she was the one
behind the whole trouble.
“It was six days later when the police arrested
her that she then confessed that she committed the act because she claimed I
was not taking care of her, and I had not bought sallah clothes for her son,
which is not true. She had sneaked to our area, and asked the two kids to
follow her to Orile. This is unimaginable for me.”
As
the search for the two children continued, which took Mubo and his first wife
to travel to Ilorin, Kwara State to consult their relatives and get ‘spiritual
help’, a friend had called them on Thursday, October 9, that she saw Lateef
with Akanni around the CMS Bus Stop, Lagos Island. The police were then invited
who trailed her movement and arrested her.
The
mother of the two children, Funmilayo, told Punch that Aminat had bottled up
grievances against her for a long time.She said,
“Aminat killed my daughter. She made us to
have a sorrowful Sallah. We were running around police stations. She said she
wanted to punish me and my husband because she was having issues with us. So,
why did she not come after us, why after my two children?”
The
Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, confirmed the
incident, adding that Aminat was now in police custody.
He
said,
“Aminat Akanni is the second wife of the
complainant. Investigation revealed that the corpse of Nofisat was recovered by
the Orile Division in a sudden and unnatural death.The suspect confessed to
have drowned the child and dropped the corpse at Orile. The case has now been
transferred to the Orile Division for further synchronisation and action.”
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