The police in Lagos has 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.
Punch Metro learnt that 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 after discovering she was
behind the kidnap of the children.
Prior to her 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.
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 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.”
Punch Metro learnt that 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 Metro
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
Omg over sallah cloth. That woman most be sick.
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