A 17-year-old teenager identified as Abiodun Ojo, from Benin Republic, has been detained for allegedly killing her husband.
A 17-year-old Beninoise teenage wife, Abiodun Ojo, has reportedly killed her husband, identified as Jimoh, in the Makoko area of Yaba, Lagos State.
The young bride said she poisoned her husband because she hated him, blaming 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 said she was handed over to Jimoh as wife by her father to stop her from marrying her boyfriend.
The couple together have a baby girl, Hannah and they live in their home on Apolo Street, Makoko.
However, she said she 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.
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 efforts by residents to save 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.
She said: “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."
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.