Police
officials have arrested a 17-year-old Beninoise woman, Kwenume Ojo, also
known as Abiodun, for allegedly killing her husband, Jimoh Ojo, 32,
after she laced his soft drink with poison and forced it down his throat
while he slept on Apolo Street, in Makoko area of Yaba Lagos State.
Ojo reportedly took the poison from a
relative of her boyfriend after she was forced to marry the deceased and
committed the act on Friday, June 27, 2015.
Mr Ojo’s in-law, Rotimi Akinlagun,
explained that the marriage was arranged by both families because the
deceased was retarded which made it difficult for him to get a wife.
He said, “Jimoh was a carpenter. When he was born, he fell sick and that affected his health as he became retarded.
“When he became mature, we decided to get him a wife. We started asking around for anybody who could give him a wife.
“Kwenume’s father heard and he contacted
Jimoh’s family. He gave them Kwenume to become Jimoh’s wife. She had no
choice in the matter.”
The suspects father was said to have
supported the arrangement because he didn’t want her to marry her
boyfriend, who he did not like.
According to Punch, the dislike, it was gathered, stemmed from the maltreatment of Kwenume’s sister, who was married into the boyfriend’s family.
The source added, “She was brought to me
and we took her to Jimoh’s hometown in Yewa, Ogun State. He was going
there to make love with her. After six months, she became pregnant and
we brought her back to Lagos State.
“The couple moved into a new apartment
to start a new family. Their apartment was close to my house so I could
monitor them. Abiodun (Kwenume) was assisting my wife to sell food at
her canteen.”
It was gathered that after the couple
had a baby girl named, Hannah, she became attracted to her former
boyfriend and she started visiting him.
More so, she went to his elder brother,
Wensu, an herbalist in the Sogunro, Iwaya area of the state, who
allegedly gave her the poison to put in her husband’s drink so she could
marry the boyfriend whose identity was disclosed.
“When he became mature, we decided to get him a wife. We started asking around for anybody who could give him a wife.
“Kwenume’s father heard and he contacted
Jimoh’s family. He gave them Kwenume to become Jimoh’s wife. She had no
choice in the matter.”
The suspects father was said to have
supported the arrangement because he didn’t want her to marry her
boyfriend, who he did not like.
According to Punch, the dislike, it was gathered, stemmed from the maltreatment of Kwenume’s sister, who was married into the boyfriend’s family.
The source added, “She was brought to me
and we took her to Jimoh’s hometown in Yewa, Ogun State. He was going
there to make love with her. After six months, she became pregnant and
we brought her back to Lagos State.
“The couple moved into a new apartment
to start a new family. Their apartment was close to my house so I could
monitor them. Abiodun (Kwenume) was assisting my wife to sell food at
her canteen.”
It was gathered that after the couple
had a baby girl named, Hannah, she became attracted to her former
boyfriend and she started visiting him.
More so, she went to his elder brother,
Wensu, an herbalist in the Sogunro, Iwaya area of the state, who
allegedly gave her the poison to put in her husband’s drink so she could
marry the boyfriend whose identity was disclosed.
According to the victim’s elder sister,
Modupe Akinlagun, he had returned from work on the fateful day and
visited her shop to get food.
She said, “He dished the food himself
and ate. After eating, I asked him to go home and rest. When his wife
returned from an errand I sent her, I asked her to also return home with
her baby.
“I was still there when his wife came to call me that he had slumped in the toilet.
“When we got there, people had
surrounded him and were pouring palm oil into his mouth. He was vomiting
the oil and a white substance. He kept saying, ‘Iya Hannah has killed
me, she opened my mouth and poured drug inside.’
“Iya Hannah (Kwenume) denied Jimoh’s accusation, but he insisted that she forced the poison down his throat.”
The source’s husband said the deceased
gave up the ghost around 11.30pm, adding that the community elders
questioned the suspect before she confessed to the crime.
He said, “Around 3am on Saturday, a policeman, together with some of our people went to get the man.”
Furthermore, the two suspects were said
to have been kept till dawn until a team of policemen from the Adekunle
division arrived in six vans.
It took the intervention of the police officials to calm the raging youth who nearly lynched the both suspects.
The traditional ruler of the Egun
community, Seriki Dito, called on the police to investigate the case,
adding that governmental and non-governmental organisations should come
to the aid of the couple’s child, Hannah.
He said, “This is something that has
shaken our community terribly. We want the government to give the
deceased justice. We also want help for the girl because she is almost
an orphan now.”
Confirming the incident, the state
police spokesperson, Kenneth Nwosu, said, “The woman and her accomplice
are in custody. The case has been transferred to the DCI for
investigation.”
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