Pictured! Adulterous Mother Of 3 Dies In Lover’s House

An official of the Lagos State University, Samuel Ambe, has
been arrested by the police for allegedly killing his lover, Mata Jidonu.

Thirty-two-year-old Mata was married to a lawyer, Sunday
Jidonu, for whom she had three children.

It was learnt that the suspect worked at the Department of
Works and Physical Planning of the university.

Punch Metro gathered that Mata, who lived in the Agric area
of Ikogazebba, Badagry, had left home around 3pm on February 15, saying she was
going to buy foodstuffs in the market, but reportedly headed for the lover’s
house, a few kilometres away.

Her husband, Sunday, who had returned from the court earlier
that day as a result of illness, became apprehensive when she did not return on
time.

He said, “I came back from the court that day around 2pm
because I was ill. On getting home, I found out that my wife was dressed up,
ready to go out. I told her to prepare coffee for me because that it is what I
normally take in the afternoon. She said I had been taking too much coffee and
advised me to eat eba that was already prepared.

“She put the stew on fire while she went to pick our last
child, Laura, from the school. I told her to help me buy drugs along the road.
The same motorcyclist that took her to and from the school waited for her
outside and took her again supposedly to the market to buy beans.

“I slept after taking the drugs. Laura woke me up around 5pm
and I asked his brother where their mother was. I called her number but it did
not go through. I called her mother, our church and the centre, where she was
doing a post-literacy study; they all said she was not with them.”

Sunday said he became more worried when it was 9pm and Mata
did not come home. He added that he could not sleep conveniently till the
following day when he reported at the Badagry Police Division.

“I was at the station, when the head of the vigilante group
in our community called me on the telephone that my wife had been found dead in
a bush path. When I got to the scene, a crowd had gathered and policemen from
Ado-Odo Ota, Ogun State, had arrived to pick her corpse. She was strangled and
stabbed in the leg. Her private parts’ hairs had been shaved off,” he added.

The lawyer told our correspondent that the nature of Mata’s
death prompted him to talk to people living around the area, saying that he was
told she used to go to the suspect’s home regularly and was there on February
15.

He said he gave the information to the police, leading to
Ambe’s arrest.

He said, “I was told that my wife had been sighted with Ambe
on several occasions at his second house and that she entered the building on
the day the incident happened. He is a non-teaching staff member at LASU. His
family members do not live with him in that house. I reported to the police and
eight days later, he was arrested.

“As we were going to the station in a police van, he called
somebody on the telephone, telling the person in Egun language that the fat
woman had been traced to his house. He did not know that I understand the
language.”

Punch Metro learnt that Ambe’s phones were consequently
seized and upon dialing the deceased’s number on one of the phones, it showed
‘D@M’ as the identity of the caller.

“The call logs we got from the MTN office revealed that he
had been calling my wife every day since February 1. It was discovered that he
had called her twice on February 15, the day she did not come back home,” he
added.

It was learnt that the police recovered some charms from the
suspect’s house, while bloodstains were found on the wall of the building

Sunday said, “He (Ambe) begged me to forgive him. He said he
was not the one who killed my wife and that he was only dating her.

“But there are enough indications for me to believe that he
is behind the death of my wife. Since then, some elders in the community have
been threatening me to let go of the matter. I have also been noticing strange
movements around my house.”

Confirming the incident via a text message, the Ogun State
Police spokesperson, DSP Muyiwa Adejobi, said the command had enough evidence
to prosecute the suspect, adding that he would be charged to court.