WOMAN ABDUCTS STEP-DAUGHTERS, BURIES ONE IN SOAKAWAY

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.

According to Punch, the suspect killed one of the kids, Nofisat, by pushing her into a soakaway

The suspect has been arrested and and has confessed to first kidnapping and later killing the younger, child, Nofisat, by pushing her into soakaway beside a mosque in the Orile area.

Moshood Mubo, the suspect’s husband, who first raised the alarm and reported the case to the Adeniji Adele Police Division said:

“I married Aminat in 2010. In order to avoid a crisis at home, I rented an apartment for he     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  and 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.

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.”