The incident
occurred less than 24 hours after a similar happening at Oje area of Ibadan
where a man allegedly poured a bottle of acid on the mother of his two kids for
reasons best known to him.
“The woman
who gave me a substance told me that it was a charm meant to endear my husband
to me. I never knew that what she gave me was acid.
All I was
trying to do was to keep my husband’s love so that he would not think of
leaving me, because I know that my marriage with any other man would not endure
because of my barrenness.”
These were
that words of Remi Agunbiade (38), a resident of Ita Barika, Foko area of
Ibadan, Oyo State, after she was arrested by the policemen from Iyaganku
Division over an alleged attempt to kill her husband, one Olawale Shola, by
pouring acid on him on January 27, 2016.
According to
Crime Reports the Foko incident happened at about 9a.m while Shola was lying
down in a room he stayed with his partner, Remi. In an interview with Remi
after her arrest, the lady, who also got some of the acid on her skin, claimed
ignorance of the substance she poured on her partner, saying that she thought
it was a love charm.
According to
her,
“I met Shola
in 2003 and we have been together since then. He was the one who forced me to
abort for him twice, and since then, I have not been able to get pregnant
again. Then, he had a wife with two kids”.
“When I had
my first pregnancy, he said that his wife was also pregnant with their third
child, asking me to abort mine, which I did.
He used to
schedule his stay between the two of us. We used to quarrel often and this got
me worried because I knew that if he left me, I would not be able to have
another steady relationship since no man would be willing to live with a barren
woman”.
“I met a lady
called Iya Azeez at a provision stall at Agbeni market, Ibadan. During our
discussion, I intimated her of my challenges and said that I didn’t want to
leave my husband.
She replied
that I would have to resolve the issue through self-help.
I asked for
assistance to stop further quarrels between me and my husband and she said she
would help me get water that had been prayed into from an Alfa, stating that
all I would need to do is to sprinkle it on my husband, after which he would
love me without holding anything back.
She gave me a
bottle containing the liquid substance on Tuesday, January 26″.
“On Wednesday
morning, my partner, Shola, was lying down when I took the bottle and poured
the content on his head. He cried in agony from sleep and I also shouted and
ran out. But he followed me and caught up with me beside the house next to
ours”.
“He asked
people to help him hold me so that I would not run away. By then, a huge crowd
had gathered and it was then they started saying that it was acid that I poured
him. Some of the liquid got rubbed on my body when he held me, giving me some
burns.”
The suspect
claimed that she did not know the residence of the friend who gave her the
purported bottle of liquid, saying that she only met the lady about two months
ago.
She confirmed
that she quarrelled with her husband concerning accommodation, since she
already told him that she was tired of living with him in a room she rented
herself.
“I decided to
pack everything out of the room to another place, leaving it bare. His friends
intervened and he came to sleep in the room with me on Tuesday. My action was
because I didn’t want to have another husband.”
She also
disclosed that her husband started dating another lady in her neighbourhood
about three years ago, and that the lady used to scorn her childlessness. Remi
added that her husband rented a room for the lady.
Crime Reports
was also at the Burns Unit of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan
where the victim was on admission. He narrated his experience thus: “Remi and I
have been together for over 11 years.
My relationship
with her caused a friction between her and my first wife who has four children
for me.
“I used to
defend Remi anytime she had a quarrel with my first wife, especially because
she had yet to have a child.
At a time, I
abandoned my first wife to be with Remi when the first wife cursed Remi and
said she would never have any child till she would quit relationship with me”.
“Also about three years ago, I started dating a lady.
This caused
Remi to be threatening her. She even went as far as quarrelling with the lady.
Last year, I
discovered that my first wife was already dating another man because of the
neglect she suffered from me. As a result, I called Remi in October 2015 and
told her that I would have to share days of the week between her and my first wife.
Initially,
she was angry at my suggestion but later said I should start in January 2016″.
“I went to my
first wife twice in January and by the I returned to Remi’s place, she had
changed the lock and had packed all her belongings and mine. She also collected
my phone from me under the pretext that she wanted to use it. After my friend’s
intervention, she returned on Monday, January 25. But I went to sleep in the
third lady’s house. On Tuesday, I went to Remi’s place and stayed there with
her in the bare room”.
“On
Wednesday, I was lying down, waiting for a friend. Suddenly, I felt a warm
liquid on me. As I opened my eyes, I saw as she was about to run out and I went
after her. I raised the alarm and people came.
I told them
that she had already threatened that she would do an unforgettable thing to me.
That was how I was rushed to the hospital.”
Shola
admitted asking Remi to have an abortion in the past, but said it was only
once.
The Oyo State
Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Adekunle Ajisebutu, who confirmed the
story, said that the suspect was still undergoing investigation, adding that
she would be arraigned to court at the conclusion of investigation.
Ajisebutu
warned members of the public against adopting acid as a weapon of revenge,
saying that the act was criminal.
Speaking on
Shola and the second patient, Abimbola, the Public Relations Officer of the
UCH, Mr Deji Bobade assured that they would get the best of treatments.
According to
Bobade, “it is good that they have passed the critical stage. We hope that in a
matter of days or weeks, depending on how fast the healing process is. they
should be discharged home.”
Good for greedy men one wife do you
ReplyDeleteWicked woman she's not even the first wife
ReplyDeleteliar wanted to punish him for going to the other wife
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