Many were startled by the
confession of a seventeen-year-old Beninoise woman, Abiodun Ojo, who killed her
husband, Jimoh, in the Makoko area of Yaba, Lagos State, she poisoned her
husband because she hated him.
Abiodun, during an
interview with PUNCH Metro, she 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.
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.
PUNCH Metro
Forced arranged marriage must stop.
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