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. These world is turning into something else where a life can be ended because of a cloth #smh.
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