A Beninoise teenager, 17-year-old Abiodun Ojo, who killed her husband,
Jimoh, in the Makoko area of Yaba, Lagos State, said she poisoned her
husband because she hated him.
Abiodun, during her interview 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 3 times, and was sent back
by her father, who she described as the architect of her problem.
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.
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It was reported that Jimoh, a carpenter, 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 immediate 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 2 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 2 wives and he had 9 children. My mother had 6 children
for him and I am number 4. I did not go to school because my father did
not allow me.
“I had a boyfriend, Papa, whom I dated for 2 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 3 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.
She said she regretted marrying the deceased because she never loved him.
It was learnt that the boyfriend, Papa, had travelled back to the Benin Republic.
His elder brother, Wensu, a herbalist, denied giving Abiodun the poison, saying she framed him up.
He said:
“I am a herbalist by profession and I was taught the job by my
grandfather in the Benin Republic when I was a child. I met her sister
in the community and we married legally. She had three kids for me.
“But when I married another woman, she divorced me and married somebody
else. I did not give her any poison and I have never met her husband,
Jimoh, in my entire life. She is lying.”
The Police Public Relations Officer, Kenneth Nwosu, said the suspects would soon be charged to court.
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I
told you guys that ex-Governor Sule Lamido and his sons would not be in
that prison sell for two months as ordered by a court in Kano, and that
is how the saga has played out within just few days. 
Photo of Jamal with his friends some days before he drowned 
