A Beninoise teenager, 17-year-old Abiodun Ojo, who killed
her husband, Jimoh, in the Makoko area of Yaba, Lagos State, said she poisoned
her husband because she hated him.
Abiodun, during her interview 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 3 times, and
was sent back by her father, who she described as the architect of her problem.
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.
It was reported that Jimoh, a carpenter, 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
immediate 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 2 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 2 wives and he had 9 children.
My mother had 6 children for him and I am number 4. I did
not go to school because my father did not allow me.
“I had a boyfriend, Papa, whom I dated for 2 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 3 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: PunchNg
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