Mata Jidonu who lived in
the Agric area of Ikogazebba, Badagry, had left home around 3pm on February 15
2016, she said that she was going to buy foodstuffs in the market, but
reportedly headed for her lover’s house, a few kilometres away.
Thirty-two-year-old Mata
was married to a lawyer, Sunday Jidonu, for whom she had three children.
It was learnt that the
suspect worked at the Department of Works and Physical Planning of the
university.
Her husband, Sunday, who
had returned from the court earlier that day as a result of illness, became
apprehensive when she did not return on time.
He said, “I came back from
the court that day around 2pm because I was ill. On getting home, I found out
that my wife was dressed up, ready to go out. I told her to prepare coffee for
me because that it is what I normally take in the afternoon. She said I had
been taking too much coffee and advised me to eat eba that was already
prepared.
“She put the stew on fire
while she went to pick our last child, Laura, from the school. I told her to
help me buy drugs along the road. The same motorcyclist that took her to and
from the school waited for her outside and took her again supposedly to the market
to buy beans.
“I slept after taking the
drugs. Laura woke me up around 5pm and I asked his brother where their mother
was. I called her number but it did not go through. I called her mother, our
church and the centre, where she was doing a post-literacy study; they all said
she was not with them.”
Sunday said he became more
worried when it was 9pm and Mata did not come home. He added that he could not
sleep conveniently till the following day when he reported at the Badagry
Police Division.
“I was at the station, when
the head of the vigilante group in our community called me on the telephone
that my wife had been found dead in a bush path. When I got to the scene, a
crowd had gathered and policemen from Ado-Odo Ota, Ogun State, had arrived to
pick her corpse. She was strangled and stabbed in the leg. Her private parts’
hairs had been shaved off,” he added.
The lawyer told our
correspondent that the nature of Mata’s death prompted him to talk to people
living around the area, saying that he was told she used to go to the suspect’s
home regularly and was there on February 15.
He said he gave the
information to the police, leading to Samuel Ambe’s arrest.
He said, “I was told that
my wife had been sighted with Ambe on several occasions at his second house and
that she entered the building on the day the incident happened. He is a
non-teaching staff member at LASU. His family members do not live with him in
that house. I reported to the police and eight days later, he was arrested.
“As we were going to the station
in a police van, he called somebody on the telephone, telling the person in
Egun language that the fat woman had been traced to his house. He did not know
that I understand the language.”
Punch Metro learnt that
Ambe’s phones were consequently seized and upon dialing the deceased’s number
on one of the phones, it showed ‘D@M’ as the identity of the caller.
“The call logs we got from
the MTN office revealed that he had been calling my wife every day since
February 1. It was discovered that he had called her twice on February 15, the
day she did not come back home,” he added.
It was learnt that the
police recovered some charms from the suspect’s house, while bloodstains were
found on the wall of the building
Sunday said, “He (Ambe)
begged me to forgive him. He said he was not the one who killed my wife and
that he was only dating her.
“But there are enough
indications for me to believe that he is behind the death of my wife. Since
then, some elders in the community have been threatening me to let go of the
matter. I have also been noticing strange movements around my house.”
Confirming the incident via
a text message, the Ogun State Police spokesperson, DSP Muyiwa Adejobi, said
the command had enough evidence to prosecute the suspect, adding that he would
be charged to court.
Punch
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