Aminat Akanni a second wife to Moshood Mobu from Kwara State is in Lagos state police net for allegedly pushing her stepdaughter, Nofisat into a soak-away pit beside a mosque in the orile area.
According to what we gathered from Punch, the victim, Nofisat who is 9-year-old and her 4-year- old brother, lateef, were reported missing to the Adeniji Adele Police Division on Friday, October 3rd by the suspect’s husband. The search for the missing children had taken Mubo and his first wife to travel to Ilorin, Kwara State where they consulted their relatives for ‘spiritual help’ to no avail. But on the 9th October, a friend called them and revealed to them that he had seen Lateef with Akanni around the CSM bus top, Lagos Island. The police were then invited and Akanni was arrested.
Read below from Moshood:
“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 busicuits 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.”
“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 to me.
“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.”
Funmilayo, the mother of the victim lamented:
“Aminat killed my daughter. She made us to have a sorrowful Sallah. We were running around police station. 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 Relation Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu who confirmed the incident, said Aminat who is now in Police custody has confessed to the crime. He further said that the corpse of Nofisat has been recovered and the case, transferred to the Orile Division for further synchronization and action.
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