The
police in Lagos have arrested a woman, Aminat Akanni, for allegedly
abducting two of her stepchildren and murdering one of them because she
claimed her husband refused to provide Sallah clothes for her own son.
Punch
Metro learnt that the suspect killed one of the kids, Nofisat, by
pushing her into a soakaway. Aminat was arrested by the police at CMS
Bus Stop, Lagos Island, on October 9 after discovering she was behind
the kidnap of the children.
Prior to her arrest,
seven-year-old Lateef and four-year-old Nofisat had been declared
missing on Friday, October 3- a day to the Sallah celebration.
It
was learnt that the father of the missing children, Moshood Mubo, who
is also the suspect’s husband, had raised the alarm and reported the
case to the Adeniji Adele Police Division on Friday, October 3.
However,
after the suspect’s arrest, she confessed to have abducted the two kids
from Church Street, Lagos Island where they lived.
She further
confessed to have also killed the younger, child, Nofisat, by pushing
her into soakaway beside a mosque in the Orile area.
Moshood who
hails from Ilorin, Kwara State, said his second wife, who he rented an
apartment for in the Orile area, abducted the kids claiming that she
wanted to “punish him for not buying Sallah clothes for her own son.”
He
said, “I married Aminat in 2010. In order to avoid a crisis at home, I
rented an apartment for her at Mosalashi Street, Alakara in Orile. She
has only one son for me. His name is Yusuf. She does not come to Church
Street, Lagos Island where I live with my first wife.
“What
happened was that on the evening of Friday, October 3, when I returned
from work- just a day to the Sallah celebrations- I sent the two
children to go buy biscuits in front of the street. That was around 7pm.
We expected them till around 9pm. I was shocked. I quickly rushed to
the Adeniji Adele Police Division, and reported the incident.
“Believe
me, I and their mother, Funmilayo, could not sleep all through that
night. We were walking around throughout the night from one police
division to the other, repeating the same thing. The whole Sallah
celebration was a sad one as I looked for my two children. Little did I
know that it was my second wife who sneaked into our area to abduct
them.”
Moshood, who spoke while fighting back tears, added that Aminat had called him the following day, and made a suspicious comment.
He
said, “The following morning, around 11am, Aminat called me and heard
me crying on the phone. I told her that we were looking for Lateef and
Nofisat, she simply said, ‘All I know is that no one can kidnap my own
son.’ I was shocked at her statement, but I never thought she was the
one behind the whole trouble.
“It was six days later when the
police arrested her that she then confessed that she committed the act
because she claimed I was not taking care of her, and I had not bought
sallah clothes for her son, which is not true. She had sneaked to our
area, and asked the two kids to follow her to Orile. This is
unimaginable for me.”
Punch Metro learnt that as the search for
the two children continued, which took Mubo and his first wife to travel
to Ilorin, Kwara State to consult their relatives and get ‘spiritual
help’, a friend had called them on Thursday, October 9, that she saw
Lateef with Akanni around the CMS Bus Stop, Lagos Island. The police
were then invited who trailed her movement and arrested her.
The mother of the two children, Funmilayo, told Punch Metro that Aminat had bottled up grievances against her for a long time.
She
said, “Aminat killed my daughter. She made us to have a sorrowful
Sallah. We were running around police stations. She said she wanted to
punish me and my husband because she was having issues with us. So, why
did she not come after us, why after my two children?”
The Lagos
State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, confirmed the
incident, adding that Aminat was now in police custody.
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